Part numbers are stamped small and read in bad light. Where a part’s form offers “Or photograph the data plate”, you can photograph the plate and have the numbers read into the boxes.
How it works:
- Press “Upload photo or doc” and take the picture, or choose one you already took.
- Press “Read attached data”.
- The boxes above are filled in. Nothing is saved yet.
- Check every character against the plate, correct anything wrong, then press “Save this part”.
Always check what was read. On a worn plate O-320-A3A and O-320-A2A are one character apart. An uncertain reading is flagged, but a character read confidently wrong is not.
Low light across the stamping reads better than a flash pointed straight at it. The photograph is kept either way, so there is still a record of what you were looking at.