Re: Camera with Barcode Reader -- MIDRANGE-L

What type and volume of shipments are you talking about? Individual
parcels, individual pallets, truck loads? Are the packages uniform in
size/shape or odd sizes? Can the camera be mounted in a fixed location or
does it need to be positioned for each package? Have you looked at
wireless terminals? They can be human carried or lifttruck mounted. Could
they be used to trigger the camera, and store the image?

With a portable wireless terminal, can your shipper scan the barcode on
the packing slip, trigger the camera and have the system link the image
name/number to the order? How are you going to unlink this when the
shipper scans a packing list, and starts taking pictures of the wrong
order? Is there something on or about the boxes that identifies them as
being the correct item to go to this customer, or do they just look like
boxes with barcodes?

I don't see a case study on the link you give, just a page describing a
scanner that can be attached to a particular camera.

Steve

Steven Morrison
Fidelity Express

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We know the order number and the fellow on the floor will be staring at it
and its corresponding barcode on the packing slip he's following. What I'm
looking to do is tag the photographs with the order number so that fellow
doesn't have to walk over to a computer and follow some manual error prone
process of linking images x, y, and z with order 123.

That attachment (
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/514983-REG/Fujifilm_600006442_Programmed_Bar_Code_Reader.html
)
I linked to used school pictures as a case study. Kid walks up and gives
you
her name. You have a list with names and bar codes so you find his name,
scan the barcode and shoot away knowing that the pictures are going to be
associated with that kid. That seems like a great model for staying
focused
on the task at hand without sweating clerical details. Keep kids moving in
front of the camera or keep orders going out the door -- the images keep
track of themselves.

On 1/17/08, smorrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <smorrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Alfredo,

If this is "wouldn't it be cool" project, what about an RFID tag instead
of/along with a barcode. This avoids having to place the barcode in a
spot where the camera can "always" read the barcode. Otherwise, put the
pallet on a shrinkwrap platform, spin it around while wrapping it, and
have a machine put the label on the package in a consistent spot.

Although

if you're making up the pallet, and wrapping it, why do you need to

_read_

the barcode? Don't you know it since you're printing it?

Steven Morrison
Fidelity Express

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I've been participating in a "wouldn't it be cool" project that involves
taking pictures of orders as they go out the door and out of our

control.

I'm hoping someone can lead me to a camera that can read a barcode from

packing slip and associate images of the packaged order with that order
number. These orders can be as large as a pallet so a fixed solution on

conveyor belt wouldn't be practical.

I've found this

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/514983-REG/Fujifilm_600006442_Programmed_Bar_Code_Reader.html

but it's kind of pricey when you factor in a $1600 camera and they'd be
operated in a warehouse instead of a high school auditorium.

Once the image is taken the low end goal is to print a copy and put it

with the packing slip -- no need for a barcode. The high end goals

involve

storing the images on our System i where they can be called up by the
order
number.

Thanks,
Alfred

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