Importing from Images

Note, this is a paid only feature, and is experimental.

Hour by Hour lets you take a snapshot of a schedule from real life, such as a printed program or hand written time plan, and then import it with the help of AI. To get started, tap the create button in the bottom right of the Home Screen and choose either “Choose from library” or “Take Photo.”

Here's the example that motivated me to add the feature, though I've seen many others since!

It may be helpful to import the following:

• A conference program (or at least a portion of it!)
• A concert program
• A school time plan
• Written travel itineraties

Hour by Hour will upload the image to OpenAI for text recognition, and to convert the data into a form that we can use in-app.

A note on accuracy

Since AI is doing the heavy lifting here, it's not always perfect. It can sometimes misread times, mix up event details, or miss things entirely. So once your schedule is imported, it's definitely worth taking a quick look through to make sure everything looks right before you start planning around it.

In my experience it's close to 100% accuracy for simpler schedules of 10 or fewer items. But if you take a photo of a dense multi-track conference with dozens of events, it'll likely get things wrong.

Fair use policy

Because this uses paid AI services and Hour by Hour isn’t sold as a subscription, image import is provided on a generous fair-use basis while the feature is still experimental.