BrainShot — Turn Your Camera Roll Into a Document Library

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This is a submission for the "Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend" (https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-weekend-2026-10-01) What I Built BrainShot is a simple document digitization app built around a problem that almost everyone has: You take a photo of an important receipt, invoice, warranty, letter, or form — and then it disappears into your camera roll. BrainShot turns that photo into a clean, structured digital copy. The workflow is: Snap → Extract → Organize → Save → Find later You can: 📸 Take a document photo or upload one 🧠 Detect the document type ✨ Extract import

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