Has anyone built an application built for capturing photos for evidence during the packing and fulfilling of an order?
I found a company, Vimaan, who makes a product called PackVIEW. I believe a very simple version of this could be helpful for customers and thought I’d share the idea.
Taking pictures is one thing, but automatically taking pictures and properly organizing them, associating them with orders, and more is not as simple as just setting up a camera while packing.
It’s a planned (but not scheduled) feature on our mobile UI branch (mobile_v15). This ticket describes it in the receiving process but it would reasonable to make it work the same way on the fulfillment side of things.
Very cool! Thank you for the link to the project.
The BEAM project itself currently uses onscan.js to call the beam.beam.scan.scan whitelisted endpoint. I don’t see why as far as barcode integration the same couldn’t be done using another 3-rd party software for barcode scanning from images. I’ll look into that.
During the packing process for an order, images need to be taken and stored for future evidence if disputes arise. The barcode scanning can act as a verification that the proper item is being placed in the box and all items in the order were scanned and put in the box.
I’m thinking of making an app that polls the feed from a camera, runs image processing, and can trigger certain actions for a desired workflow. That’s a whole project by itself. I’ll look more for an existing solution.
A DocType or maybe a few to document the packing of an order, pictures of each item scanned, whether the item scanned was identified manually or with BEAM, and so on.
Some live visual showing the cameras feeds, and the status of the packing of the order. Probably a small Vue.js screen.
Some work to make it easy to go back and pull the evidence for an order to determine what happened during packing. Maybe a report would be beneficial with the pictures from each step of the packing. All this is mostly ready with Frappe already.
I know that the company I work for currently would be able to make good use out of such a software. It already exists; it’s just not FOSS.
Frappe has this feature built in to the framework, but it’s painfully slow and inefficient and laser barcode readers remain supreme regarding speed.
This seems very doable. The data capture and association at the appropriate time is the key.