Scanning cards

The Scan tab turns your camera into the fastest way to register a collection. Point at a card and Silvane identifies the exact printing — set, collector number, even non-English cards — not just the card name.

How recognition works

The scanner reads the card across multiple frames and combines several signals (name text, set and collector information, visual matching) until the frames agree — a consensus approach that locks the right printing instead of guessing from one blurry photo.

Reading the frame: the capture area starts as a dashed white outline while the scanner searches, turns solid blue when a card locks, and shows an amber VERIFYING state while the multi-frame consensus confirms a variant-heavy match.

Matching runs against the on-device catalog, so scanning works offline — only two things need a connection: saving non-English copies (the language-printing resolution) and cards newer than your last catalog update.

• Multilingual (Latin alphabets) — the scanner reads English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian and French cards. On auto, the language printed on the card's footer is detected and the copy saves as the real printing in that language (this resolution needs a connection). Japanese, Korean, Russian and Chinese cards use scripts the OCR can't read yet — but you can still register them in two steps: scan the English version (or add it by search), then set the copy's language. The quickest place is right in the tray's Language row before committing; it also works later from the card's edit screen. Either way the copy re-keys onto the real printing in that language when one exists — art, price and collector data included. See Card languages.
• Set lock — scanning a whole box from one set? Lock the set so every match resolves inside it, faster and more accurately (see Scan settings).
• Scans queue in the tray, so you can scan stack after stack without stopping.

Scan settings

The sliders icon on the scan screen opens Scan settings:

• Set lock — pick one or more sets, then choose the mode: Strict (matches outside the locked sets are rejected, with a toast) or Priority (locked sets win, but anything else still matches when no locked candidate exists).
• Preferred finish — Auto, Normal, Foil or Etched. Auto takes the printing's first available finish; an explicit pick applies whenever the printing supports it.
• Language — Auto (read from the card's footer) or a fixed language for the whole session. See the multilingual note above.
• Quick mode — accept the first match instead of waiting for multi-frame confirmation. Faster, less accurate on variant-heavy cards.
• Sound and haptics — the detection beep and success tick, each on its own switch.

Where scans go

Committed scans land in the binder, list or deck you pick when saving the tray. Scanning into a specific place is one tap fewer: open the binder → + → Scan, or the deck → Add → Scan — the scanner opens locked onto it and the tray's save button commits straight there, no picker (deck scans land in the mainboard). A free scan (from the Scan tab) asks for the destination and remembers your last one.