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Card Reader Great / App Could Use Update

The card reader itself works great. Fast scanning, and once the light was right the app picked it all up perfectly. One request on the app for those of use wanting to sell cards on TCG player is a better export. The discord has a way to convert, but it's tough if you have foil and non foil versions of cards. I get I need to split them up for scans but thats not how I have my cards sorted so it's kind of a pain. In the archivist app I took the time to mark every foil, but when exporting and converting they all get combined so more work to split them up. This is a specific problem, so not dinging on the rating. The app and reader work well and as advertised, would just like it to be easier to get the cards how I want them where I want them.

Superb but always room to improve

Awesome machine — I went through almost my entire collection in a weekend using Breeze. It does need a good light source, though, which I'd love to see built in on a future revision, similar to what some of the cheaper manual scanners on Amazon include. I'd also love to see some kind of card sack/hopper extender so you can load a larger batch at once. I get that it would still need to stop periodically once the bottom fills up, but not having to reload constantly would be a nice quality-of-life improvement. At this price point, I do wish it wasn't 3D printed, but that seems to be the way of the industry right now. That said, I scanned over 10,000 cards, and as long as your camera and lighting setup are dialed in, it blazes through cards. I'll be keeping an eye out for an updated version, hopefully shaped by community feedback.

Almost perfect

I genuinely love using this system. It’s allowing me to scan through almost 1,000 cards within half an hour, which is insane. I don’t take that for granted at all. However, there are a couple of flaws within the system that I feel like I would be remiss if I didn’t point them out. One being that it was shipped to me without a power cable. For my instance, this turned out to be fine because I have plenty of USB-C cables lying around. I’m specifically using the one for my Raspberry Pi 5. Second is that using the Archivist app does not use your phone’s camera to backlight the shot, and because your phone is directly over the area that you’re scanning, it can be hard to backlight it. Third is that as the stack of unscanned cards gets lighter and lighter, you actually lose grip on the O-ring roller because of warping or texture differences between the cardboard and that kind of thing, so it feels like you need a small, maybe 10 g, weight, just enough to put a little bit of pressure on top of the cards. Fourth is that it doesn’t allow the scanning of sleeved cards. I understand that it is probably difficult to scan a card with a sleeve because you can’t exactly prepare for distortion on the plastic. However, that does mean for every deck that you want to audit, you have to unsleeve, scan, and then re-sleeve. If there was a 10% increase in size for the scan chamber, I feel like it would work that much better. My fifth and final gripe would be that maybe for a future upgrade you can make a wireless charging pad that your phone sits on while it’s scanning that plugs into the main system so that way you don’t have to worry about your phone dying while you’re scanning or just losing charge in general. Besides those major complaints, everything else in the system works great.