Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
by atlgator on Sunday May 25, 2025 @11:08PM
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This is really cool! What are you using to digitize the ads?
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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
by rorylaitila on Monday May 26, 2025 @02:56AM
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Thank you! I've written a web application (I call the adverdex) to assist the process and automatically publish to the site. Magazines are inventoried, then camera images taken for each ad. Each image is cleaned up and cropped, then I use OpenAI to extract the brand, product, tagline and other details. Then I manually review and add more details for the published version. Only full page ads are currently being published but I intend to catalog every ad I encounter.