Improvements to Sports Card Scanning

Published by: JJ Hendricks on June 27, 2025

Improvements to Sports Card Scanning

We've added a bunch of card scanning (search by photo) improvements.

Major Accuracy Update for our Sports Cards Scanner

Providing accurate Sports Cards scanning is tough. There are tens of millions of cards and many of them only vary a little bit in color or holo effect.

We recently made a major overhaul to the way we scan Sports Cards that's resulted in a serious match rate improvement.

We show the correct card in the 1st or 2nd position 52% more often than before.



Improved Experience with Pack Ripping Tools

Users have asked us to adapt our Card Scanner to work seamlessly with pack-ripping tools. So we did.

In-app Card Scanner should now easily scan cards that are scanned using most types of pack breaking tools:

See the pack ripping tool + Card Scanner in action.



View scanned card parallels with one tap

Many trading cards and sports cards have multiple parallels - cards that have the same image but different colors or effects. We now let you change a scanned card's parallel with the tap of a button.

On the PriceCharting app simply touch the button below once a card has scanned, then choose the appropriate parallel - the card price will automatically adjust.

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Take/Upload a sports card photo. Find the best match in our database.

Example Photos

Great Photo
great photo example
  • Clear Photo
  • Rectangle Shaped Card
  • Minimal Background
Bad Photo = Poor Result
bad photo: too much background and blurry
  • Too Much Background
  • Blurry
Bad Photo = Poor Result
bad photo: angled edges
  • Shot From an Angle So
    Card is Not a Rectangle
Bad Photo = Poor Result
bad photo: cutoff
  • Cutoff Part of Card

Best Matches