Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture for 1/10th of a cent

Video scraping doesn’t need to be just screen captures. I’ve demoed a solution with Gemini where you take a video walking up and down aisles in a retail store and it captured 100% accurate data on product name, quantity/size, sku, and price for a little under 75% of the products. And that was back in January.

This has huge implications for everything from competitive pricing, to understanding store layouts, to creating your own grocery store inflation monitor. Just subtly take a video and process it.

And the models have only gotten better.

Holy shit I’ve been thinking about doing this for my local grocery stores, so I can stop wondering things like “who has lady fingers”.

I was wondering how well it would work. That’s such good news