Why can't biblu recognize all my books?

Modified on Thu, 20 Oct, 2022 at 11:46 AM

When scanning a book, you might receive the following alert message.


"Oh no… We couldn't recognize the book. Try one more time. "


At the moment, for English books, biblu can recognize book covers from the first time at a rate of 60%. If you try scanning the book's cover again, it is 70% likely that biblu will recognize the book from its cover. The third time is a charm'ish; our tests show a 75% chance of identifying the book.


We believe that scanning ISBNs can be more reliable than scanning book covers. In fact, we know that scanning ISBNs of English books once could lead to a 90% success rate in book recognization.


Therefore, we vow to prioritize improving biblu's book-scanning ability. We believe that we can beat the 90% success rate threshold for English books.


Once we hit the 90% target,

  • We'll make sure you know.
  • We'll also improve the experience for other languages such as French, Spanish, German, Italian, Arabic, Japanese, and other languages.

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