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An app that scans school flyers and turns them into calendar dates

Paper still wins in elementary school. The flyer comes home crumpled at the bottom of a backpack on Tuesday, the trip is a week Friday, and the money is due before that.

A scanning app helps only if it does more than store a picture. What you want is the flyer converted into dates and tasks you can act on.

What a flyer scanner should actually extract

A useful scan returns structured items, not an image in a folder:

  • The event date and time
  • The deadline to return the form or pay
  • The amount of money involved
  • Which child it applies to
  • Whether anything needs to be signed or bought

How to scan a flyer so extraction works well

Flatten the paper, shoot in daylight or under a kitchen light, get all four corners in frame, and hold the phone parallel to the page. Handwritten notes in the margin usually read fine as long as they're in focus.

Do it with Family Schedule Hub

Open Add Notice, take or upload photos of the flyers — several at once is fine — and tap Extract. The AI reads them and returns editable cards: title, date, child, category and the action needed. Fix anything it got wrong, save, and the dates appear on your week while the forms and money appear on the to-do list with overdue flags.

It runs in the browser, so there's no app store download; add it to your home screen and it behaves like an app.

Screenshots work the same way

Class group chats and school apps that don't let you copy text are just as bad as paper. Screenshot them and run them through the same extraction.

Your first step

Upload a flyer photo

Snap the flyer, drop the photo in, and we read the dates off it for you.

Upload a flyer photo

Free, no card. You'll be asked to sign in first.

Scan a flyer and see the dates come out

Free, no card. Works on your phone.

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Common questions

Do I need to download an app to scan school flyers?
No. Family Schedule Hub runs in your phone browser and can be added to your home screen, so there is nothing to install from an app store.
Can it read handwriting on a flyer?
Usually, if it's legible and in focus. Every extracted item is editable before you save it, so you can correct anything that came out wrong.
Can I scan several flyers at once?
Yes — upload multiple photos in one go and each becomes its own reviewable item.

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