Develop Advanced Menu Management AI System.

MenuSphere AI helps restaurants go digital fast. Owners get a dashboard to manage categories, menu items, and photos; customers get a clean, mobile- friendly menu page accessible via QR code — no app download required.
Core Features:
Restaurant owner dashboard with login/authentication
Menu category and item management (add, edit, delete, photos)
Auto-generated QR codes linking to each restaurant's public menu
Public, mobile-optimized menu pages for customers
Customer review system
AI-powered menu import: upload a photo or PDF of an existing paper menu, and the app extracts items automatically using OCR (Tesseract) with optional AI enhancement via Google's Gemini API
Email notifications (password reset, contact form) via Flask-Mail
Demo data seeding script included for quick preview/testing
Tech Stack:
Backend: Python 3 / Flask, SQLAlchemy ORM
Database: PostgreSQL (recommended) or SQLite (local dev)
Auth: Flask-Login with hashed passwords (Werkzeug security)
Frontend: Server-rendered HTML/CSS/JS templates
OCR: Tesseract via pytesseract
Optional AI: Google Gemini API (bring your own key)
PDF generation: ReportLab