How to add items by scanning a data plate
Scan an item's QR with your phone, photograph the nameplate, and AI reads it into a profile.
Step-by-step
- In Add Items, choose Scan a Data Plate.
- Scan the on-screen QR code with your phone and open the link.
- Allow the camera, then photograph the item's data plate / nameplate.
- AI reads the plate - make, serial, voltage, dimensions - into the Notes for AI.
- The system builds a full description; refine the notes to sharpen it.
Full transcript
Here I'll show you the data-plate scan. Scan a QR code with your phone, photograph the item's nameplate, and the AI reads the details straight off the plate into a full profile.
Let me show you the next way to add items: Add by Scanning a Data Plate. I'm going to scan this QR code with my smartphone. The smartphone gives me a link to proceed to, and asks to activate the camera. With the camera, you scan the data plate of the product you want to add. For example, I'll scan the data plate of my mouse - it can be any data plate. It recognized it's an HP, it's a laptop. It's a little blurry, and you can redo it if the system doesn't recognize it, but it captured the HP and some voltage. You use this add-product-from-data-plate feature: scan with your smartphone, proceed to the link, activate your camera, and take pictures of the product's data plate. The system tries to recognize this automatically. In the Notes for AI, you see what it captured from the image - dimensions, serial number, voltage, watts - all from one blurry image. Based on this, the system already builds a full description of the product. It might not be very accurate at first, but as you update the Notes for AI, the system generates a beautiful, accurate description.