A cataloging tool for people who own actual books
Your shelves, read by AI. Your library, on the web.
Take a panorama of each shelf row. ShelveScan reads every spine — titles, authors, volumes — and turns your whole library into a catalog you can search, reorganize, and share. No barcode scanner. No typing.
- 50 spines read from one panorama
- ~5¢ to OCR a full shelf row
- Works on your phone — upload straight from your camera roll
Three steps, one afternoon
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1 · Photograph
One panorama per shelf row, left to right, top to bottom. Label it by bookshelf and row — the app's dropdowns do it for you. Don't move the books.
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2 · Read
The AI reads every spine in order — including journals, volumes, and years. Foggy shot? It tells you which photo to retake, before anything else happens.
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3 · Use it
Search your catalog, get a move plan to reorganize the shelves physically, and publish your library as a web page — spines and all.
Plain pricing
One bookshelf
Free
Catalog your first bookshelf end to end. See the shelf view. Keep the CSV.
Start freeWhole library
$49 one-time
Every shelf, every row. Catalog, reorg plan, web library, and the research agent that tells you what your library is good for.
Scan your libraryFor schools & churches
Talk to us
Volume pricing for libraries people share — classrooms, church libraries, counseling centers.
AskBuilt for book owners, not database managers
Barcode scanners were accurate and nobody used them. Typing 3,000 titles is a week of data entry. ShelveScan is the afternoon version: photograph, upload, done — then let the AI tell you what you actually own.