Scanning singles without tapping anything: point the camera, it identifies and moves on

Most card scanners make you take a photo and wait. I wanted it to feel like a barcode gun: hold the camera over a card, it locks on, you move to the next one. No shutter, no confirm tap.

It runs about a second per card. The clip is real time, not sped up.

Three things that took the longest to get right, and are the reason it isn't just "take a photo and hope":

It doesn't need the card centered. It searches across a range of positions and scales every frame, so a card sitting off to the side or slightly rotated still locks. This was the single biggest source of failures early on - people naturally hold a card wherever it lands in frame, not neatly inside a guide box.

Foils don't break it. Holo and secret rares throw off image matching badly because the shimmer changes with every angle in most apps. Took a lot of iteration to get those matching as reliably as flat cards.

It tells you which printing. Base vs alt art is the part most tools get wrong, and it's the part that matters if you're cataloging properly. Same card number, different card.

Covers Masters through BT31 and Fusion World through FB10, alt arts and promos included. Free, no ads.

It's a one-person project, and it's still rough in places. If it misidentifies a card, I'd honestly like to know which one - that's the fastest way it gets better.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.scouter.dbstracker
Browser: dbscouter.com

u/ThePrinceOfAllVegis — 13 days ago
▲ 22 r/dragonballsupertcg+2 crossposts

I built a free collection tracker for DBSCG that scans whole binder pages with your phone camera - solo dev, would love feedback

Hey everyone - longtime DBS collector, and for the past few months I've been building Scouter, a free app for tracking your DBSCG collection (both Masters and Fusion World). Posting because this community's feedback would genuinely shape what I build next.

What it does:

📷 Camera scanner - point at a card and it identifies it in about a second. The part I'm proudest of: it can shoot a whole 9-pocket binder page in one go and identify every card on it. If your binders are master sets in card order, it even uses the page order to figure out the tricky pockets.

📚 Full catalog - every set through BT31 and FB10, including alt-arts, SPRs, and promos.

✅ Set completion - see exactly which cards you're missing from any set, with an "add full set" option and per-set progress.

📥 One-minute migration - if you already track your collection elsewhere (Collectr, TCGplayer CSV), import brings it all over.

It's free to use, no ads. I ship fixes weekly and take bug reports seriously - half the scanner improvements this month came directly from user reports.

Android: Play Store link
iPhone / browser: dbscouter.com

Happy to answer anything about how the binder scanner works under the hood - getting card recognition to work on a 12-pocket page was a genuine adventure. 🙏

u/ThePrinceOfAllVegis — 8 days ago
▲ 0 r/DragonBallTCGFinance+1 crossposts

Grading question: Not sure if to send it to TAG, CGC, or Beckett. Any thoughts?

Overall, to my eye, it seems to be mint with good centering. Not sure where to send it, or whether it makes sense to go for the black label.

u/ThePrinceOfAllVegis — 2 months ago