[daemonologist]

We (ML team) were brought in to talk to some folks at our sister company about this possibility. Our conclusion was basically that expectations were way too high - as mentioned in your quote they wanted a specific brand, model, and price for every item (from a grainy photo of a charred object, out of a scraped database of millions of items, with a correct hit in the top three or four results). Frankly I don't know how/if even the expert human appraisers manage it.

If you could achieve those results, it would be tremendously valuable. But I think you'd need a research team and ~~five~~ many years.