CatalogSnap

CatalogSnap turns your phone into a capture station for library cataloging.

Photograph catalog cards and book pages, and the app uploads them straight to your own CatalogSnap server on your local network — where they are turned into structured MARC21 records for review and import into your library system. No cloud, no third party: your data stays with you and your institution.

Built for librarians

• Catalog cards — capture printed catalog cards for digitization
• New acquisition — photograph several book pages in one batch
• Offprints — scan inventory book pages
• Subject analysis — assign subject headings from book pages
• QR pairing — connect to your CatalogSnap server in seconds

On-device and private

Card edge detection and preliminary OCR run on the phone using Google ML Kit — no network or cloud needed for processing. Photos are held only while a batch is uploading and are removed afterwards; they are not saved to your gallery. The app contains no analytics, no advertising, no crash-reporting SDK, and no user accounts. It talks to nothing except your own server.

Requirements

CatalogSnap is a companion app: it needs a running CatalogSnap server on the same local network, paired once via QR code. It is intended for professional, institutional use by libraries.

Publisher: Solvellon Kft., Budapest. Questions: info@catalogsnap.eu