{"id":8330,"date":"2026-04-11T16:26:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T20:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/?p=8330"},"modified":"2026-04-11T16:26:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T20:26:46","slug":"quick-post-7-ai-for-cataloging-in-the-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/8330\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Post #7: AI for Cataloging in the Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home use for AI: Our user manuals, warranty cards, directions, etc. for electronics, appliances, etc. were totally unorganized and in several locations. As I&#8217;m getting them out and grouping them roughly alphabetically (folders for every few letters), I&#8217;m snapping a picture of the cover of each one. Claude is then able to scan the photos and generate a spreadsheet with the category (e.g., manual, warranty, directions), brand, model or product, Item type, and documentation type. It pulled it all from the photos with OCR and created a spreadsheet, no typing required.<\/p>\n<p>You could do the same for a record collection, book collection, or anything similar. Just snap a photo and let AI create the catalog.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8331\" style=\"width: 747px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-11-160323.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8331\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-11-160323.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of a portion of a spreadsheet that Claude created. It has columns for Category, Brand, Model\/Product, Appliance Type, and Doc type. It shows a sample of 20 entries, including a mattress warranty, directions for a Dell computer, and a manual for a digital scale.\" width=\"737\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-11-160323.png 737w, https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-11-160323-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-11-160323-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of the catalog<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home use for AI: Our user manuals, warranty cards, directions, etc. for electronics, appliances, etc. were totally unorganized and in several locations. As I&#8217;m getting them out and grouping them roughly alphabetically (folders for every few letters), I&#8217;m snapping a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/8330\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[110,130,129,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8333,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions\/8333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}