Flyer price checker

Weekly ad flyers compared automatically — every price and layout change flagged.

Client
A supermarket chain
Industry
Retail & grocery
Region
Puerto Rico
Services
Workflow automation, Applied AI & integration
  1. 1
    Upload two flyer PDFsThe previous and the new version
  2. 2
    Detect product boxesOCR and object detection on every page
  3. 3
    Read names & pricesAI extraction from each box
  4. 4
    Match & compareItems paired across versions
  5. 5
    Report 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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