OUR STORY

the beginning

PACK SCAN started out like nearly all organisations as a simple idea, on a relatively boring and uninspiring day. Our organisation was started by our co-founders who as both radiology nerds and Magic the Gathering geeks wondered the question; "what if we could use x-rays look inside boosters". After a few months of experimenting and tweaking the settings, they were indeed able to do just that! The next step was to think of a catchy name (PACK SCAN of course), make the service practical for consumers to use and found a company.

FOUNDING

In the year 2024 AD the glorious company of PACK SCAN was established. Perfectly just in time for Spooky Season as well in October (Halloween being voted the best annual holiday by the team at PACK SCAN). Soon after founding PACK SCAN was inundated with orders, more than our co-founders ever expected! We received glowing reviews in the collectibles community which we truly appreciated, alongside constructive criticism in online forums which we have took on board and used to further better our services.

OUR GOALS FOR THE FUTURE

GROWTH OF SERVICES

We at PACK SCAN would love to offer more services in the future! Our team has come up with some great ideas about how we can further use CT to provide authentication and provenance services for collectibles and even opportunities with XRF. We will announce when new services are to be released in our newsletter, so be sure to subscribe!

increased capacity

A big goal of the PACK SCAN team is to acquire more CT scanners to be able to take on more orders. Options include Nikon, Bruker and Zeiss variants of micro and nano industrial CT systems. Our team is in the process of testing the variants for the optimal results, which may potentially improve our future services.

SCAN CHECK AUTOMATION

We are part of a research team from multiple organisations developing a new machine learning algorithm for reading text on radiographed cards and paper with auto-recognition software. With our developments we are hoping to release an app so that CT scan data can be immediately traced over and translated into its original form (e.g. show you the original Pokémon Card sealed in a booster pack within seconds). Be sure to follow our social media accounts for updates.