MTG Magic Scanner for android is an app that catalogues and prices cards using OCR technology. You can rapidly scan card names using the phone camera to build a list. It's great for trading or for documenting a deck. Prices are from TCGPlayer.com. Exporting lists is simple, I mostly email them back to myself.
It is able to read normal black and inverted (white) text. Pre-modern typeface however is not yet supported. I find I can scan most cards in normal lighting conditions. It has trouble locking onto some cards where contrast between text and background is low and also sleeved cards. It may guess the wrong printing, so you sometimes have to disable or enable the set library to get the correct price. I find I have to disable duplicates otherwise it tends to read cards more than once.
Some positives and negatives, but a great timesaver if you're sorting money cards out of bulk.
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