Hi Gretchen and all! We took a similar approach to what Alex is describing when building the deliveries module for Nexudus. The biggest challenge was, as Alex said, the OCR bit. This involved several trips to a recycling point to try to find as many delivery labels of different layouts as possible, to build the training data for the module. Fun day! :)
This is how we approached it: 1. You use the app to take a picture of the delivery note, make it as clear as possible (rotate, crop and sharpen) and create the delivery record in the system. 2. This is then converted to text (OCR) and matched against your member database. In the back-end you can see which labels we managed to match and which ones we didn't. You can choose a member at that point as you go through the list. You don't do any of this on the phone itself as we found it was easier and faster to do in a computer and ensures you can scan a large volume of labels quickly and worry about the matching process later. 3. Once we have figured out who the delivery is for or if you have selected a member, we send them an email notification (which you can also connect to slack, zapier and usual suspects...). This also includes the picture of the label. 4. Lastly, members can see all their deliveries from their account page. We show status, whether they need to sign the delivery, who collected it where in the build it is and the actual label again, in case they missed the notification. This page also suggests members to use specific delivery details, based on what we have in the database for them, so the automatic matching process has the highest chance of finding them. This is actually a free module so, if you didn't want to use Nexudus for anything other than this, you could give it a go at no cost. Happy to help anyone who is looking at building something like this. It was a fun little project for us! On Tuesday, June 12, 2018 at 11:08:43 PM UTC+1, Gretchen Bilbro wrote: > > Hi everyone. If you accept mail for your members what is your process for > letting them know they have mail, how do you keep the mail and do you have > a log to show when they were notified and when they picked up mail? I am > having an issue with a member saying they received a notification email > from us that they had mail but then coming in and it not being in their > folder. We have a log through COBOT of all emails sent to members and do > not show that an email was sent to them. Just curious what your process is > for mail pick up and notification. Thanks! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
