Cover Scan to locate comic

Comics CLZ Comics Mobile
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I think this may have been suggested/requested in the past, possibly even by me haha.

As useful as the cover feature is, adding books, and checking values.

But there are times I want to scan a book and be taken to the folder or to the series and access the rest of the books of that series.

Is that something that might be on the idea board?

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Indeed I remember seeing this as a request. It is on the ideas board, but the cover scan takes a picture, then compares that with our images in Core. Not with your images that you have locally - so this might be a difficult one.

I imagine the easiest way of this happening would be to scan cover - show results from Core, then have some sort of link to open that series “locally” of the found comic that you select from the Core search. (sounds a bit… wonky to be honest :slight_smile: )

But yeah, on our ideas list!

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Awesome that it is on the idea list. I understand the complexity involved that the scan option is connected to core. I don’t know much about programming, but would it be possible to link the trigger for the scanning to a different butting.

For example, the main scanning butting triggers a link to core, but the camera option in the upper search bar that triggers the scanner option to locate a book. Could that butting trigger the scanner to search the local collection. Basically point the scanner in a different direction?

I hope that makes sense the way i described it

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butting = button ?

I think you misunderstood why this is hard to do.
The cover scanner uses complex and computing intensive image recognition technology that runs on our servers. Using that tech, we indexed all images in Core, so that when a user takes a picture of a cover, the picture can get matched to a comic in our Core.

This kind of tech would be very hard to do locally, on your own local database.

The only solution would be to use the server side tech to find the image in our Core, then check if that comic happens to be in the user’s local database. However, that means it would never work on custom images or manual entries.