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Snap photos of envelopes as they roll down a conveyor.

Snap photos of envelopes as they roll down a conveyor.

poolet08
Explorer | Level 3

Good Morning,

 

We have a unique project where we need to capture envelope images as they roll down a conveyor every 2-3 seconds. We are hoping to utilize dropbox to take video and extract the images or have dropbox snap a picture every time they come down with no motion blur. 

 

Does anyone have any guidance on this for us?

 

Thanks!

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Walter
Dropbox Staff

Hi there @poolet08 - thanks for using Dropbox and posting on our Community!

 

There's no way to achieve what you had in mind at the moment through Dropbox, but there might be a third party app or integration that could help. 

 

That said, can you let us know more about what you'd like to accomplish and how? 

 

Would using the Dropbox APIs be an option for you perhaps?

 

Keep us posted!

 

 


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poolet08
Explorer | Level 3

Hi Walter,

 

Any idea what integration may work? Basically just as the envelopes come down the conveyor, a photo is snapped and the image is cropped and saved in jpg format. I am also open to dropbox taking a video and then extracting the images somehow and saving them in jpg format cropped and in color. Thats really all I need. There are lots of scanning functions that can seem to accomplish this but nothing that can do it on a continual basis. 

Rich
Super User II

@poolet08 wrote:

I am also open to dropbox taking a video and then extracting the images somehow and saving them in jpg format cropped and in color.


That's not what Dropbox does. Dropbox is a storage service. It doesn't have the ability to take photos or videos on its own. You need another application to handle that part, preferably one that can connect to Dropbox to store the files.

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