We unload railcars and have a project involving large steel coils. Each coil has a tag with data about the coil. I want to find a way to use my iPad to take a photo of the label (or some app), using OCR, to map the data to a spreadsheet. I am brand new to this and have no clue what I don’t know. Any advice would be helpful.
Hi @Badante
there are free ocr api services
Step 1:
take the photo on the tablet
Step 2:
upload the file to google drive
Step 3:
build scenario that watch files on specific folder (this how you get when there a new file)
Step 4:
send the photo to the ocr service
Step 5:
update the relevant spreadsheet with the relevant data
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Thank you. I have identified Free OCR API and will try them for the OCR portion and I will actually try to do this within Google Appsheet. We shall see.
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