Barcode scanner (manual): allow search with wildcards with the help of search-a-licious ?

[raphodn]

Story

Some barcodes are slightly unreadable, the AI is incorrect, and the user can spend a lot of time figuring out the correct code.

With openfoodfacts/search-a-licious we could do complex search using wildcards

• see examples in this issue: Allow complex filtering on the code (startswith, endswith, contains, regex)  search-a-licious#242

We could also simply replace all the searches with this API.

Requirements

It would be better if we could search on ALL products, not just food (OFF) products. It doesn't seem to be the case currently... openfoodfacts/search-a-licious#272

Related issues

• feat(BarcodeManualInputDialog): Smarter dialog, with products suggestions #991
• Search for a product #167
• Proof image / Price tags: barcode scanner library to extract the EAN open-prices#670

[raphodn]

Demo video (using side-by-side Open Prices & Search-a-licious)

screencast-prices_openfoodfacts_org-2025_01_04-21_05_44.webm