Card Scanner: Reliability Fixes and Smarter Card Matching
The card scanner had a rough stretch — some scans would hang on "identifying" or come back empty, and occasionally match the wrong printing. That's fixed now, and we used the chance to make it meaningfully smarter.
Reliable again
Scans no longer hang or silently fail. We added a hard timeout and rebuilt how the scanner reads results, so a scan now either identifies the card or tells you to try again — it never just sits there.
More accurate set identification
The scanner now recognizes the newest sets correctly, including the full Mega Evolution era, and leaves the set blank rather than guessing when it is not sure.
It picks the right printing
When a card's collector number is clearly readable, that number now takes priority over a less-certain set guess — so you get the exact printing instead of a look-alike from the wrong set.
No duplicate entries from one card
Holding the same card in front of the camera no longer creates several conflicting entries. Scan a card once, then move it away or swap in the next one — quantities are adjusted on the review screen.
Free scans only count when they work
On the free plan, only successful scans count toward your daily limit — a failed or empty scan no longer uses one up.
For a stretch, scans could hang on "identifying" or return no card because of a timeout and a parsing issue in how results were read. That has been fixed — scans now reliably identify a card or prompt you to retry.
Yes. Set recognition was updated to cover the latest releases, including the Mega Evolution era. When the scanner is unsure of the set, it relies on the card number to match the correct printing.
No. On the free plan only successful scans count toward your daily limit, so a failed or empty scan does not reduce your remaining scans.