Hello app creators. Weโre working on a new optical character recognition (OCR) feature, and I would love to hear from you all about how you would use this feature in your apps. You can reply to this thread or shoot me an email at tony@appsheet.com.
This is awesome @tony
The use case for this that one of my clients has is to be able to OCR a Store Receipt for materials purchased and enter them against a Budget set up for categories. It would be awesome if we can combine AI and OCR to do this. If there were budget categories, say Lighting and Plumbing and the receipt had Bulbs and Faucet, for example, that they would be categorized and recorded properly.
Same here
Tony, my use case:
Transcribing materials tickets into the app (similar to receipts). A shipper brings a load of material, such as sand, we must record the quantity of sand brought and maybe other details such as the truck ID. This is recorded on physical tickets that the truck drivers keep for their records / payment, and we get a copy as well.
One issue is these tickets can come in a large variety of formats, meaning it would be difficult to have reliable OCR.
How I would use it with AppSheet:
Ideally, I would scan a ticket and be able to use SPLIT() on some character or character(s) to break the ticket apart. Users could then identify, for that particular ticket format, where the relevant information lies in terms of an index number on the SPLIT() list. These index numbers would be remembered / carried forward and should stay consistent for a particular ticket format.
In this manner, users should be able to set up a convenient workflow for OCR scanning of a wide variety of ticketsโฆ
I would love this as we read water meters and this would be helpful to log the numbers automatically.
@Max and @Jonathon, could you email me a couple of example images? tony@appsheet.com
Hi TONY, I just got few questions.
OCR feature would work during offline?
When the user take photo for the digital indicator fixed on some equipment, then OCT could read numbers and transform to text ?
Tsuji
I would love to use it in 3 ways
This is awesome. Canโt wait
Thumbs up!
I would use it for a number of manufacturing use cases
Oooooo, I like this.
I have clients in the medical sector, they would love to be able to import data from reports produced by diagnostic/testing equipment.
@tony One user case would beโฆ emplyees are measuring roof, walls etc. level by level (in a building) with laser before they can start the manufacturing process with inside walls. With the OCR they could read the measure directly from the laserโs display without manual typo error.
Really Great.
I think it could be used to match and confirm purchasing records and the scanned suppliers invoice to make sure quantity and price is same or % within tolerance.
AP invoicingโฆ
My first need for it would be to read through pdfs to quickly find the information related. For e.g. currently, I save quotes and invoices in pdfs to send to customers and scan a copy of the signed hard copy in pdfs as well. When a customer called in to discuss something about a certain quote or invoices, I use the pdf editor to search through the pile and show me the page.
In fact, I was about to ask the question how can I hook up a service to read the OCRed pdfs with Appsheet.
Wingo
Our use case would be:
We take analysis of flue gas. With OCR we donโt have to type the parameters into our App but simply scan the Screen.
Example Image:
Great work Appsheet, TYVM!
CRM apps need to OCR Contact data from business cards
Balance sheet apps need to OCR and auto categorize receipts
This would be perfect for PODโs and collection/delivery status updates for me.
I would use it in the field to capture appliance and mechanical equipment model numbers and serial numbers and BTU inputs.
Wow cool feature, I would use it for my ebs register app. I receive 3-10 pages of claims containing product name,qty,expiry,reference, etc.
There are so many usesโฆ reading handwritten timesheets, invoices, tool serial numbersโฆ When can we expect to see this feature rolled out?
Kudos Tony!
Use Case:
In my previous company, they fill all those delivery orders by hand. If you could just take a picture of the delivery orders and have them converted into text and put in the right field in appsheet, tracking delivery will even seem fun I bet!
license plate reader to scan cars license plates
Love it!! Agree with all of the above. Store Receipts would be our biggest need and then packing slips. Agree with all of the above as well. Outstanding!!
This would be excellent. In my work, we often have to record data from labels (like business cards) to input into a database. I was actually hoping this feature would be implemented as it would allow me to work on building an app in the near future. Thanks!
@tony, This is an awesome feature.
I would probably most definetely use this for a type of ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) for my Yard Management System.
Nice one Tony!! When do you anticipate releasing this feature? We will use it for fleet management.
Hey everyone. Hereโs a demo of the feature, please take a look! Weโre hoping to get this out to beta testers within a week or so.
Cool canโt wait to test. Thumbs up to appsheet team
@tony baller!
Will it recognize and pull the code from a data matrix code on the image?
Soโฆ you are imagining seamless text recognition plus barcode scanning all in one? Hmmโฆ very interesting. Donโt know if anybody doing that.
@tony - great new feature, and thanks for showing it in video. Best way to see the value!
WOW! If you need beta testers Iโm super keen.
Looks great, I have been waiting for this feature for a while, can you sign up to become a BETA tester?
Much appreciated.
Great new feature!
Please let me know when I had a chance to test it.
Awesomeโฆcanโt wait to test
This looks so cool! looking forward to trying this out