Splento

Splento provides food photography, video and image services for restaurants, cafés, food brands and food platforms.

Quick overview

Its range includes on-site shoots, work on existing photos, generated visuals and menu recognition.

On-site photography can cover dishes and venue interiors and exteriors, while video options include short dish clips and venue footage.
Existing images can be assessed, enhanced or edited in batches, with brand guidelines covering details such as backgrounds, angles and crops.
Food photos can be turned into short MP4 clips with a choice of camera motion.
Merchants can upload their own photos for checking and editing through a self-service tool.
Menu recognition extracts items from photos or PDFs into structured data.

Introduction

Splento provides food photography, video and image services for restaurants, cafés, food brands and food platforms. Its services include on-site shoots and tools that work with existing food photos.

The range covers image assessment, AI-generated visuals, photo editing and moderation. Splento also offers menu recognition and tools for creating advertising and social content.

What Splento offers

Splento can photograph dishes and venues, turn still images into short videos, and edit batches of existing photos. Its services also include finding listings without photos, assessing images against a scorecard and creating visuals from a written dish description.

Businesses can use individual stages on their own or combine them. Alongside visual production, Splento can extract menu items from photos or PDFs into structured data.

Product and service categories

Food and venue photography

On-site shoots can cover menu photography, marketing photography and images of a venue’s interior and exterior. Video options include venue header footage, short dish videos and 360° dish videos. A separate on-site photo service sends a creator to photograph menu dishes using a phone; the images are then edited and checked.

Finding and assessing photos

Splento offers a service that finds listings missing photos. Another service searches for existing public photos of a merchant’s dishes and matches images to menu items. If no reference photo exists for a dish, that item does not receive an image.

Photo assessment can also cover images already on listings. Checks include sharpness, lighting and how a dish appears at thumbnail size, with a score assigned to each photo. Businesses can change how much individual checks count, and scoring can be a one-off or continue as photos are added or changed.

Photo enhancement and editing

Existing dish photos can be uploaded for AI enhancement, including changes to lighting, composition and backgrounds. Brand guidelines can specify details such as background, angle, crop and format. Splento also offers batch editing with photos edited by people.

Enhanced images pass through moderation, with AI checks or human review available. Photos from a listing audit that score below the chosen threshold can be refreshed, while those that pass are left as they are.

Video and generated content

Splento can turn an existing food photo into a short clip with camera motion. The available moves include zooming in, circling the plate and rising to a top-down view. Clips are supplied as MP4 files, up to 10 seconds long, with no audio track.

Splento also offers advertising photos or videos generated from a business’s digital footprint, plus social posts created without a shoot.

Image moderation

Splento offers automated image checking, tagging and approval. Its self-service tool gives merchants a link to upload their own photos for checking and editing. Moderation options also form part of the photo enhancement workflow.

Menu recognition

Menu recognition turns menu information into structured data. Menu items can be extracted from photos or PDFs and added to a catalogue. Splento also describes a workflow for producing photos alongside menu data when adding venues.

Browse the full range on the Splento website.

More Info

Using the website

The portfolio shows food photos and clips, including before-and-after comparisons and images from shoots. A media library offers search by what appears in a shot.

Businesses can book a demonstration or send a message through the contact form. An account login is available, and photos from past events can be viewed and downloaded from an account.

Notable features

Brand guidelines can cover image backgrounds, angles, crops and formats, as well as file naming. Splento can work with photos uploaded through its interface or supplied through an API. Individual images or batches can be submitted for some services.

For photo-to-video clips, users can select a camera move and retry an individual image with a different move. A pilot is also offered using a handful of live listings.

Frequently asked questions

Can Splento photograph both food and a venue?

Yes. An on-site shoot can include dishes, venue images and video in one visit.

Can a business provide its own food photos?

Yes. Existing photos can be uploaded for enhancement, and the self-service tool lets merchants upload their own images for checking and editing.

What happens if there is no reference photo for a dish?

When Splento searches for existing dish photos, an item without a reference photo does not receive an image. The service matches the images it finds to their menu items.

Can an existing photo become a video?

Yes. Splento can create a short clip from a food photo, with a choice of camera moves.

What format are the photo-to-video clips?

Each photo produces an MP4 clip of up to 10 seconds, without an audio track. Clips are available at 720p, with 4K where the placement needs it.

Can Splento work with brand guidelines?

Yes. Guidelines can specify details such as backgrounds, angles, crops and formats, and files can be named to a business’s convention.

Can menu information be extracted from a photo?

Yes. Splento offers menu recognition that extracts menu items from photos or PDFs into structured data.

Key takeaways

On-site shoots cover dishes, venues and video.
Existing food photos can be assessed, enhanced or edited in batches.
Still photos can be turned into short clips with a choice of camera motion.
Image checking and a merchant upload tool are available.
Menu recognition extracts items from photos or PDFs into structured data.

Summary

Splento brings together food photography, video creation, image editing and menu data services. Businesses can book on-site shoots, work with existing photos or use individual tools for tasks such as image assessment and moderation.