Let Yardor Read the Photo First: Gate Recognition and Document Prefill

Gate photos and booking documents can be read right in your browser: recognized numbers are prefilled with a confidence mark for the gate check, and BOL details are offered as suggestions you confirm one by one — nothing is filled in or changed without a person.

The reading happens on your own device, in the browser — Yardor does not send these photos to a paid recognition service, and there is no per-photo charge. What the reader finds is always a starting point for a person: you can check it, change it, or ignore it.

Gate photos: recognition pre-fills, people still decide#

1. In the gate check, add a photo by choosing an image file and saying what it shows (plate, trailer, or seal), then tap Recognize. Photos added by pasting a link keep working exactly as before — type those numbers yourself.
2. The numbers Yardor reads are prefilled into the check boxes, each with its confidence: a clear read is marked sure, a shaky read is marked “Not sure”. Check every prefilled number against the vehicle before you compare — you can edit any of them, and once you edit a number it counts as your own entry, not the reader’s.
3. Tap Compare as usual. Recognized numbers only take part in the comparison — they never change the booked numbers by themselves. If a number does not match, the same three choices and the same reason rules apply.
4. If a photo cannot be read or recognition is not available, nothing is blocked: the shaky or missing numbers are left for you to type, exactly like the manual check.

Booking: a BOL becomes suggestions, one by one#

When you book an appointment as a carrier, you can choose a photo or scan of your bill of lading (BOL) and let Yardor read it first. Yardor offers what it finds as a suggestion list: the BOL number, the carrier, the weight, and the piece or pallet count.

• Each suggestion is yours to accept, edit and accept, or ignore. Nothing from the document reaches the form until you accept it.
• A field you have already filled in yourself is never overwritten: its suggestion starts out ignored, so your typing always wins unless you choose otherwise.
• The carrier is only suggested when the name on the document matches a carrier in the list. If there is no match, the name is shown as read — you pick the carrier yourself.
• The date printed on the BOL is shown for reference only. It is the document’s date, not your appointment date, so Yardor never puts it into the booking.

Insurance certificates (COI): Yardor can already read the insurer, the policy number, and the expiry date from a COI. The place to upload a COI and have those details prefilled arrives together with appointment documents — until then, keep entering them the way you do today.

Yardor features used in this article#

• Warehouse console → appointment details → Gate check (choose a photo file → Recognize → Compare)
• Carrier booking form → Document prefill (choose a BOL image → confirm each suggestion)