OT brainstorming: camera integration

[Brian K. White]

Document jobs.

In my customers particular case that means the condition of a truckload 
of stuff before leaving somewhere, after arriving somewhere.

Similarly the condition of an individual item before/after being handled 
or transported.

Some of my customers have already been doing this the hard way since 
even before digital cameras. Then cameras that used a floppy disk... 
They take picture of every shipment in the back doors of the trailer 
just before they close and lock the door.

It's essentially exactly the same as scanning a document and associating 
it with a record, which we actually already do since a long time ago. 
We've been treating "scanning" as really any random kind of file you 
want to upload and associate with a record. Could be a pdf generated by 
a scanner, or almost anything else, so photos, word docs, zip files...

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Take pics of employees or customers or visitors.
Like a security desk where they snap a pic and print a guest id badge on 
the spot at the front lobby. Or Employees just for records or for the 
web site or embedding in email signatures etc.

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Support. Take a pic of something and someone back at the office looks at 
it and tells you what to do about it.

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bkw

On 2/8/2016 12:22 PM, Bob Rasmussen via Filepro-list wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to pose a question: if you could integrate a camera into your
> user interface for a filePro application, what might you do with it?
>
> By camera, I might mean:
>
> * A webcam facing the user, such as on a laptop, tablet, etc.;
> * A rear-facing camera, such as on a tablet (iPad);
> * A small tethered (or wireless) camera that could be easily pointed at
> anything;
> * A document camera, pointed down at a horizontal surface where you
> could slip a document, where the camera could capture the image in at
> least 100 DPI.
>
> Interaction might be automatically triggered when something came in to
> view (such as a barcode). More likely, a monitor window would be open on
> the screen, showing a continuous (video) image from the camera, and the
> user would initiate an action (keystroke, mouse click, touch) when "ready".
>
> Assume a picture, once captured, could be printed, emailed, attached to
> an email, uploaded, viewed, zoomed in on, cropped, and/or saved locally.
>
> Assume the process of taking the picture could take one second or less.
> Contrast this to the time needed to scan a single piece of paper - maybe
> 30 seconds.
>
> To get you started, here are some ideas I've had:
>
> * Snap a picture of a recipient's signature.
> * Take a picture of an inventory item.
> * Add supporting documents to an emailed invoice.
> * Verify who's sitting at the terminal.
> * See what just printed out of the printer.
> * Collect evidence photos for an insurance claim.
> * Capture buyer's driver's license image.
> * Recognize and react to barcode, QR code, or numeric ID.
> * Anything you can do with the camera on an iPhone.
>
> Please brainstorm away.
>
> Regards,
> ....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.
>
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