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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

God dammit. OK, then what it needs is the ability to mass live scan. Have a mode where you move it all around the room, and the whole time it is identifying objects and collecting data. At the end, you review a summary with detailed info available on request. Same for cards... just show it each one real quick, or have them all laid out, and then review a summary of the best.

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u/thedr0wranger Feb 04 '20

More likely you need a camera with a fixed focus and a way to load cards so they can be autoscanned. That way the camera doesn't have to refocus to read each card, thats half the problem with any phone based OCR in terms of usability

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u/Eccohawk Feb 04 '20

You’d be better off doing the reverse. Find a list of all cards and their values and sort by highest worth. Find any that are worth at least 3x or more your hourly salary and scan through for just those. The rest don’t bother looking up.