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DukaanAI: Turn Product Photos into a Shop Inventory with Open-Weight AI Tags: #hf26challenge #devchallenge #hacktoberfest #ai

The problem Small retailers often need to maintain product catalogues containing product names, categories, descriptions, prices, and stock quantities. Entering this information manually can be repetitive, especially for shops with many products. I wanted to explore a simple question: what if a shopkeeper could start creating an inventory entry just by uploading a product photo? That question led…

Small retailers frequently struggle with manually maintaining product catalogues, which require product names, categories, descriptions, prices, and stock quantities. DukaanAI is an AI-assisted inventory tool designed to help local shopkeepers create inventory entries by uploading product photos. The tool converts the uploaded images into suggested inventory entries, including product names, categories, and descriptions. Users can then review these suggestions, enter the actual price and stock quantity, and save the entry.

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