If you have a recipe box or collection of recipes that you would like to scan and use as your recipes in a family cookbook, it can be done. However, a problem with scanned or photographed recipes is that the system can not read the text to create titles and indexes and other parts of the cookbook. The computer just sees them as photos.
You also need to make sure the scanner saves the image as a JPEG file, not a PDF.
So you have two options:
So you have two options:
You can include the scanned images as photos attached to recipes that you have typed into the system. This preserved the original form of the recipe card and makes the recipe highly readable.
Second, you can upload the recipe card image on the Add A Recipe form as the recipe itself and just type the recipe title and contributor name. This saves typing and you get to use the image as the entire recipe. You can add personal notes if you want.