How to scan trading cards with your phone
Scan Pokémon, One Piece, Lorcana, Yu-Gi-Oh! and 47 more card games with your phone camera and see what each card is worth.
Scan without choosing a game
Open the scanner in CardFrame and leave it on Auto. It recognises cards from all 51 supported games, so you can scan a mixed pile (a Pokémon card, then a One Piece leader, then a Magic land) without switching anything.
When you know you are scanning a single game, you do not need to tell the app; Auto finds the game on its own.
Get a clean read
Lay the card flat on a plain, darker surface and hold the phone parallel to it, close enough that the card fills most of the frame. Even light matters more than bright light: avoid a lamp reflecting off foil.
Sleeved cards usually scan well; a scratched or very glossy top-loader can cause glare. If a card is not recognised, tilt it slightly to move the reflection off the artwork.
Check the exact printing
The scanner identifies the set, collector number and print language, because those decide the price. If several finishes share the same image, a normal and a reverse holo for example, open the card's variants to pick the one in your hand.
Scan a stack
Keep the camera moving from card to card: each card is recognised, priced and added to a list. When you are done, file the whole list into a collection and CardFrame keeps a running total of what it is worth.
