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[rnocards]

Hi,

Do you use any particular card scanner before you upload your cards to eBay and other sites?

What's your experience with these scanners, and do you recommend any particular brand/model? Can you scan the cards raw, in penny sleeves, toploaders, slabs, or other? Does it then transmit to any particular site/app for editing and cataloging, before you upload to eBay?

Thanks.

[mlbfan10]

carddealerpro.com is what I'm using for identification and cataloging. They have certain scanners that are compatible and are listed on their website. Any of those are good scanner choices.

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[rnocards]

Cool, thanks.

[rnocards]

I'm curious if there are any companies on the net that offer a raw card scanning and uploading service?

Say if you have 10,000 raw cards and wish to scan, upload, and catalogue them for easy identification and management, are there any services that you can pay to have them do this for you, rather than buying a scanner and doing it all yourself?

[Watchmee]

Using pass through scanner (Epson ES-400 II (https://www.amazon.com/Epson-Workforce-ES-400-II-Adjustment/dp/B08P3YVH3X/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1LIG3X5SFLFKY&keywords=Epson+ES-400+II&qid=1698464036&sprefix=epson+es-400+ii%2Caps%2C109&sr=8-3) ~$270 on Amazon) for cards up to 35-40pt and for anything ticker like the new Marvel cards or graded slabs an overhead scanner (CZUR Lens 1200 Pro (https://www.amazon.com/CZUR-Lens1200-Portable-Document-Travel-Friendly/dp/B0BKZ1ZBPB/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1091Z5U9TYOCS&keywords=CZUR+Lens+1200+Pro&qid=1698463996&sprefix=czur+lens+1200+pro%2Caps%2C114&sr=8-3) ~$130).
For me their main plus is their price point which is much "nicer" than the similar offerings by Fujitsu/Ricoh scanners (i.e. 50-70% cheaper). I like also:

the easy way of adding extra space around the scanned cards;
that I can combine size by side the front & back in the same image that goes to eBay.
scanner works fine with penny sleeves if you feed them with the opening side forward (otherwise the rollers might pull 1st the sleeve off the card and only after that scan the card)


Example of scan from Epson ES-400 II: (https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/7FsAAOSwhsllIIry/s-l1600.jpg)

Scan example from CZUR Lens 1200 Pro (https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/aGEAAOSwe4VlNBKu/s-l1600.jpg)
(for the result above some batch processing of the CZUR scans is needed for the front & back to be close to each other; the default scan puts the 2 images ~2-3" apart on a 8.5x11 page)

[Watchmee]

I'm curious if there are any companies on the net that offer a raw card scanning and uploading service?

Say if you have 10,000 raw cards and wish to scan, upload, and catalogue them for easy identification and management, are there any services that you can pay to have them do this for you, rather than buying a scanner and doing it all yourself?

I would assume that it's just a matter of price and how much you want to spend :)

The scanning part is relatively easy but what slows the process for me is I like to clean the scanning surfaces every 30-50 cards or slight lines start to show up in the images. I got my Epson ES-400 II in end of May and so far I scanned ~6K cards for my eBay listings on as needed basis. The time consuming part is the card identification and linking the image(s) with a listing details -- i.e. the cataloging part. Once that's done upload of variant listing with 250 card images to eBay takes just a few minutes (I'm using WonderLister).

What sort of raw cards you have in mind -- i.e. sports or non-sport? Asking because from relatively "automated" options for card identification with some sports you have only manual card-by-card search for non-sports TCG cards like Marvel, Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh and that will determine how time consuming 10K batch processing will be.

Rgds,
Alex

[rnocards]

Thanks Alex, but I am no longer looking for such a service. I had like 10k cards, mostly junk wax, that I thought I might scan them and list them for sale, but I decided they were not worth it, and so ended up donating them to a nearby charity/thrift store.