Photograph and identify an item

What you'll end up with

A new item in your Catalogue with the manufacturer, class, catalogue number, gauge, era and condition filled in, a plain-English description in the notes, the photos attached, and a stash number (RCO-0091, say) you can write on the box or print as a label. The item lands in the Workshop's In Test column, ready to be checked before it's listed.

The Add item page with four photos of a green LNER locomotive added and a Scan photos button — Add item. Photos first — everything else comes from them.

Steps

Press AI Scanner in the sidebar (or Scan / Add Item on the Dashboard).
Add photos. On the website, drag them in or choose files; on the app, press the camera and take them there and then. Three or four angles help most: the loco or wagon side-on, the underside (that's where the running number and maker's marks are), the box end if you have it, and any damage.
Press Scan. Stashery looks at all the photos together and fills in the form: title, manufacturer, catalogue number, gauge, era, condition, type, and a description in the notes.
Read what it filled in. The catalogue number is the one to check — it drives the pricing later. If Stashery wasn't sure it leaves the box empty rather than guessing, and offers candidates you can pick from. Each detail is marked Catalogue-verified or Read from photo (unverified), and if you already own one of these Stashery says so, with what you paid last time.

Since v0.7.0 the saved item shows where each detail came from — set by scan, from the catalogue, or typed by you — with a History of every change. Locomotives have DCC fields (decoder, socket, address, sound project, CV notes), and a Documents section takes manuals, receipts and CV sheets as a PDF or a photo.
Add what only you know: the purchase price, and any intake flags — needs repair, sell as spares, parts only.
Press Save. You'll see the new stash number at the top of the item.

The tablet app showing four photos of a locomotive added to a new item — On the tablet app, photos come straight from the camera.

The scan result: the locomotive identified as LNER A3 4472 Flying Scotsman, with the reasoning and catalogue entries to pick from — After Scan. Everything in the form came from the photos — check the catalogue number.

What you'll see

The item page shows the photos, the details, and a Sold-price comps panel that can fetch prices once there's a manufacturer and catalogue number (see Price an item). In the Workshop, the item appears under In Test.

A saved item page showing the stash number RCO-0024 in the header — Saved, with a stash number. Print its box label with Print label on the item.

If something goes wrong

Scan filled in the wrong model.: Correct the fields by hand, or press Re-identify on the item page — it uses the title and anything you've typed to propose candidates with a reason for each, and you choose which to apply.
The photo won't upload from my phone.: Photos are compressed on the phone before uploading, so even large ones should go through. If one refuses, take it again in the app rather than picking from the gallery — that fixes it nearly every time.
It's a job lot, not one item.: Use Job Lots → Record New Lot instead. Photograph the whole lot, press Scan, and you get an editable list of everything it found; you decide which become individual items and how the cost is split between them. (v0.8.0: crowded photos are handled by zooming in on each item, and you can pull the photos straight from the eBay listing you bought it from.)
The scan came back with nothing.: Usually the photos are too dark or too far away. Get closer, get the underside in daylight, and try again.