What is screenshot-to-calendar?
Screenshot-to-calendar is an event creation flow where you import a photo — typically a flight confirmation, hotel reservation, concert ticket, or event poster — and an AI vision model extracts a structured calendar event from the image. Composed implements screenshot-to-calendar on iPhone using Claude vision via the parse-screenshot edge function.
How does screenshot-to-calendar work?
You pick a screenshot from your photo library or paste one into the app. The image is sent to a vision-capable language model, which reads the visible text and layout, identifies the event fields (title, date, time, location, confirmation number, gate, address), and returns a structured payload. The app builds the calendar event from that payload — including multi-day spans for hotel check-in and check-out, IATA airport codes for flights, and lockbox codes for short-term rentals. The whole flow runs in roughly four seconds.
What’s the difference between screenshot-to-calendar and OCR?
OCR — optical character recognition — converts an image into raw text. It tells you which characters are on the screen but not what they mean. Screenshot-to-calendar runs after OCR-equivalent vision: the model not only reads the text, it identifies which string is the departure time versus the arrival time, which address is the hotel versus the airport, and which date is check-in versus check-out. The output is a structured event ready to save, not a text dump for you to parse manually.
Why does screenshot-to-calendar matter?
Most event-confirmation content lives in email, in apps you don’t use as your daily calendar, or on physical posters and ticket stubs. Typing those events into a planner by hand is the highest-friction part of personal scheduling, and it’s where the most events fall through. Screenshot-to-calendar reduces that friction to one screenshot and one tap.
Get Composed
Composed parses flights, hotels, restaurant reservations, and event posters from a single screenshot. Download Composed on the App Store and try it free.
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