Flyer price checker
Weekly ad flyers compared automatically — every price and layout change flagged.
- Client
- A supermarket chain
- Industry
- Retail & grocery
- Region
- Puerto Rico
- 1Upload two flyer PDFsThe previous and the new version
- 2Detect product boxesOCR and object detection on every page
- 3Read names & pricesAI extraction from each box
- 4Match & compareItems paired across versions
- 5Report the changesHighlighted images and an Excel summary
The challenge
Each weekly ad flyer goes through several versions. Checking hundreds of prices and product boxes by eye between versions was slow and error-prone.
What we built
- Upload of two flyer versions as PDFs
- OCR and object detection to find every product box and price
- AI extraction of product names and prices from each box
- Matching across versions to flag price and layout changes
- Highlighted comparison images and an Excel summary for the team
By the numbers
2Versions compared per run
ExcelSummary of every change
Technology
- Python
- FastAPI
- AWS
- OpenAI
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