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You could put together an OCR app for their phone that could scan the title and author from the spine of the book (or cover) and do a lookup against something l
by metaloha 5y ago
You could put together an OCR app for their phone that could scan the title and author from the spine of the book (or cover) and do a lookup against something like the Google Books API or Open Library to get the ISBN (or store the work in your account on that service).
- spaztastical 5y agoLooks like there is at least one other person interesting in such a thing, but no hits on it existing already: https://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/43635/ocr-in-book-spines https://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/43635/ocr-in...
- BigBalli 5y agoYep, that's in the pipeline for MyBookList!