Manual · Submit an index
Submit an index for a cookbook
Some cookbooks in your library don't have their dishes listed yet. You can help complete them by photographing the index pages — we'll extract the dish names and add them to the shared catalogue.
1Open a book that has no dishes
From the Recipes tab, tap a book in your library. Books that don't have an index yet show an empty dish list and a hint to capture the index.
2Open the actions menu
Tap the ··· menu in the top-right of the edition page and choose Capture index. If the book was just added, you'll also see a Capture Index Pages button on the "book added" confirmation screen.
3Photograph each index page
Hold your phone steady over each index page and tap the shutter. The pages upload as you go — you don't need to wait between shots. Tap Done when you've covered the whole index.
Tip: include the table of contents too if the book uses that instead of a back-of-book index.
4Wait for the dishes to appear
CookCook reads each photo and proposes a list of dishes. This usually takes a minute or two. You'll get a notification when the dishes are ready, and the book's page in the catalogue updates automatically — for you and for everyone else who owns the book.
Notes for the team — first-time UX
- The capture entry lives behind a ··· menu — consider promoting it to a primary CTA on the empty dish list, so the empty state isn't a dead end.
- Camera-only capture means the simulator can't drive this flow end-to-end; the camera-step screenshots have to come from a real device.
- We tell users the photos aren't shared, but it's worth also showing this inline in the camera UI to reassure first-time contributors.