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Barcode lookup: a provider chain with an LLM as the normaliser

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The app now has three input devices: your voice, your camera pointed at paper, and — new this post — your camera pointed at a barcode . The first two hand Claude an ambiguity problem: rambling speech, crumpled thermal print. A barcode is the opposite. 5000169005804 identifies exactly one product on…

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  1. 2026-08-22 16:09 · DEV Community — AI
    Barcode lookup: a provider chain with an LLM as the normaliser

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