Book-scanning app

Nice idea! I made something similar a while back using zapier: - Image to text - Chatgpt to clean up into titles (image to text sometimes inaccurate/hard to read the titles) - Chatgpt to check against your read list It worked best taking photos of like 30-40 books/ 3 shelves at a time - still missed around 20% of the books. I made this version so groups of friends could easily share what books they had on their shelves, and mini online libraries.

Just use ChatGPT. I once sent it an image of a bookshelf at the bookstore and then asked it to recommend something for me. And as it knows my context, it did a great job tbh. So you can create a project inside ChatGPT, attach your lists, and then ask it to review an image.

I don’t know anything that scans spines and matches them with your reading list automatically, but when I’m browsing used bookshops I sometimes snap a quick photo of a shelf and run it through VBook Scan because its text-detection is decent enough to read most of the spines for me. It’s not made for this specific purpose, and it definitely misses titles when the spine is worn or the angle is bad, but it has helped me quickly identify a few books without having to pull everything off the shelf. Not a perfect solution, just something that ended up working better for me than scanning apps that only rely on barcodes or cover photos.