Scanning Cards

Four ways to get a card into your collection: PSA cert lookup, vision identification, bulk lookup, and manual entry. Each has its sweet spot — pick the right tool for the card in your hand.

1. PSA cert lookup (fastest for slabbed)

If your card is in a PSA slab, this is the fastest path: under 5 seconds per card.

1. Open slabtrack.io → Add Card
2. Click Scan PSA Cert
3. Either type the cert number from the label OR use your phone camera to scan the barcode
4. SlabTrack queries the PSA API → returns player, year, set, parallel, grade, pop count, and the official PSA images
5. Click Save

2. Vision scanner (for raw cards or non-PSA slabs)

Photograph the card → AI identifies it. Best for raw cards, vintage, BGS/SGC slabs (which don't have a public API).

1. Add Card → Vision Scan
2. Take or upload a photo of the front
3. SlabTrack runs the image through a vision model → returns its best guess at player, year, set, parallel
4. Review the guess — correct any wrong fields
5. Add a back photo for completeness, then save

3. Bulk lookup (for spreadsheets)

If you already have a spreadsheet of your collection (player, year, set, grade), import it:

1. Add Card → Import CSV
2. Upload a CSV with columns: player, year, set, parallel, grade, gradingCompany, certNumber (cert # optional)
3. SlabTrack matches each row against the sportscardspro database to fill in missing fields and prices
4. Review unmatched rows (typos, obscure cards) → fix or skip
5. Click Import

4. Manual entry (for what AI can't ID)

Some cards are too rare or too damaged for vision to ID. Just type them in:

1. Add Card → Manual
2. Fill the form: player, year, set, parallel, grade, grading company
3. Optional: cert number, photos, notes, purchase price, purchase date
4. Save

Hardware scanners

If you have hundreds or thousands of slabs and want to digitize fast, SlabTrack has a desktop scanner companion app (Electron + PowerShell, Windows-only). Pairs with a Fujitsu fi-8170 ADF scanner. Drops slabs in the feeder, hits scan, and the app extracts each label, OCRs the cert number, and adds them all to your collection in one batch. Talk to the operator if you want this set up — it's not a self-serve install.

What gets stored per card