Retail OCR solution, is one technology that can ensure a complete re-boot in your digital transformation process. OCR technology, short for Optical Character Recognition, is much more than just a scanning software turning documents into image files. Today, OCR capabilities include automatic extraction of relevant information and fully searchable documents with text content that is recognized by information systems.
Case Studies
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Computer Vision - Video Processing Engine for Truck Survey
For a Transportation solution provider involved in aggregation and fleet management services
Business ask
Create a feature-rich survey report based on the vehicular data collated from video feed captured on National Highways. The report will aid in developing analytics for fleet management and efficient routing decisions.
Solution
An optimized video processing engine developed using Computer Vision techniques, capable of object detection, label annotation, storing pixel level information and generating intelligible reports based on tracked data.
Value delivered
Lucida's solution reduced the processing time of developing reports from tracked vehicular data by 40% . The previous implementation solved for the business-ask in 3 chunky steps with manual intervention required to move from one step to another. Our solution rendered the entire process seamless and faster.
Tools
Open CV, Python backend, UI / UX, Javascript, CSS.
Create a feature-rich survey report based on the vehicular data collated from video feed captured on National Highways. The report will aid in developing analytics for fleet management and efficient routing decisions.
Solution
An optimized video processing engine developed using Computer Vision techniques, capable of object detection, label annotation, storing pixel level information and generating intelligible reports based on tracked data.
Value delivered
Lucida's solution reduced the processing time of developing reports from tracked vehicular data by 40% . The previous implementation solved for the business-ask in 3 chunky steps with manual intervention required to move from one step to another. Our solution rendered the entire process seamless and faster.
Tools
Open CV, Python backend, UI / UX, Javascript, CSS.
Machine Learning - Improving Retail Data Quality
For a leading Market Research firm
Business ask
Improve Data Integrity of Retail Management Data using Machine Learning to increase the efficiency of downstream Data Analytics processes.
Solution
A Machine Learning model capable of identifying the brand and predicting specific attributes of any product based on its general text description. Predicted attributes along with identified brand feed downstream data for retail management processes.
Value delivered
The solution required sanitizing heavy volumes of diverse forms of retail data generated across geographies such as India, Malaysia, Philippines and Kuwait. Automation of data processing prior to deriving analytics resulted in improving the integrity of data that were consumed downstream by many orders of magnitude in less time and cost-effective manner.
Tools
Python, NumPy, Pandas, ScikitLearn , KNIME, Docker, PyCharm.
Improve Data Integrity of Retail Management Data using Machine Learning to increase the efficiency of downstream Data Analytics processes.
Solution
A Machine Learning model capable of identifying the brand and predicting specific attributes of any product based on its general text description. Predicted attributes along with identified brand feed downstream data for retail management processes.
Value delivered
The solution required sanitizing heavy volumes of diverse forms of retail data generated across geographies such as India, Malaysia, Philippines and Kuwait. Automation of data processing prior to deriving analytics resulted in improving the integrity of data that were consumed downstream by many orders of magnitude in less time and cost-effective manner.
Tools
Python, NumPy, Pandas, ScikitLearn , KNIME, Docker, PyCharm.
Data Analytics - Consumer Insights
For a leading Market Research firm
Business ask
An Analytics processing system to derive insights on the following based on consumer data collected - Market Summary, Buyer Demographics, Brand Shift, Loyalty etc.
Solution
A Multidimensional Cube with self-serve panel and diagnostic tool interface that allowed for deriving insights based on diverse set of parameters selected.
Value delivered
The solution greatly simplified the fact finding and insights generation processes that were earlier encumbered with issues like lack of data integrity owing to data originating from multiple sources in different formats. Persona-focused design along with an intuitive and easy to use interface ensured improved efficiency and accuracy of consumer insights derived according to the user group and role.
Tools
C, C++, Sybase SQL, DBGSQL, Interactive SQL.
An Analytics processing system to derive insights on the following based on consumer data collected - Market Summary, Buyer Demographics, Brand Shift, Loyalty etc.
Solution
A Multidimensional Cube with self-serve panel and diagnostic tool interface that allowed for deriving insights based on diverse set of parameters selected.
Value delivered
The solution greatly simplified the fact finding and insights generation processes that were earlier encumbered with issues like lack of data integrity owing to data originating from multiple sources in different formats. Persona-focused design along with an intuitive and easy to use interface ensured improved efficiency and accuracy of consumer insights derived according to the user group and role.
Tools
C, C++, Sybase SQL, DBGSQL, Interactive SQL.
Data Analytics & Visualization - Dashboard for Retail Stores
For a leading Market Research firm
Business ask
An online dashboard to enable visualization of Audit / Casual data collected via store observation and develop store insights at multiple levels (store level, regional level, national level etc).
Solution
A Hadoop based solution with visualization driven by Angular 4 and reporting by MicroStrategy.
Value delivered
The solution simplified and made the generation of insights to the clients more efficient. Analytics derived from store data allowed for design of effective Activation Strategies at Point of Sale (PoS). Reporting resulted in better quantification of growth opportunities.
The solution received the best User Interface Dashboard award from the client.
Tools
Angular 4, Scala, Hadoop. Cloudera (Impala), Spark, Java, MicroStrategy.
An online dashboard to enable visualization of Audit / Casual data collected via store observation and develop store insights at multiple levels (store level, regional level, national level etc).
Solution
A Hadoop based solution with visualization driven by Angular 4 and reporting by MicroStrategy.
Value delivered
The solution simplified and made the generation of insights to the clients more efficient. Analytics derived from store data allowed for design of effective Activation Strategies at Point of Sale (PoS). Reporting resulted in better quantification of growth opportunities.
The solution received the best User Interface Dashboard award from the client.
Tools
Angular 4, Scala, Hadoop. Cloudera (Impala), Spark, Java, MicroStrategy.
Data Visualization - Customer Experience Survey Data
For a commercial bank in Middle East
Business ask
Dashboard to process, host, showcase and visualize the survey data collected to measure customer experience during interactions with banking staff.
Solution
An Angular 5 based Dashboard to improve upon already existing MicroStrategy reports.
Value delivered
Lucida's solution which scored high on performance and user experience enabled the bank to achieve better user adoption of technology amongst its staff to measure and improve upon customer experience. The entire process of collecting, hosting and reporting of survey data was automate. The feature-rich dashboard allowed for role based access and visibility at different user group levels.
Tools
Angular 5, MS SQL DB, .NET
Dashboard to process, host, showcase and visualize the survey data collected to measure customer experience during interactions with banking staff.
Solution
An Angular 5 based Dashboard to improve upon already existing MicroStrategy reports.
Value delivered
Lucida's solution which scored high on performance and user experience enabled the bank to achieve better user adoption of technology amongst its staff to measure and improve upon customer experience. The entire process of collecting, hosting and reporting of survey data was automate. The feature-rich dashboard allowed for role based access and visibility at different user group levels.
Tools
Angular 5, MS SQL DB, .NET
Mobility application - Real time Truck Tracker
For a Transportation Service provider involved in Aggregation and Fleet Management Services
Business ask
A mobile app to view and track the position of truck in real time
Solution
A touch-enabled android platform solution that allows the user to view the list of trucks along with associated details like driver info, current position of the vehicle and its geo location on maps using data sourced from sensors placed in the vehicles.
Value delivered
Lucida's solution has enabled transporters to track and monitor their trucks in less intrusive and more efficient manner. Response from the field indicates the interface of the app has been a great success with many reporting great user experience.
Tools
Android OS ( 4 to 8), ELB(Elastic Load Balancer), Amazon EC2, Kinesis Shards, Kinesis Producer, Kinesis Stream, Redis, IAM(Identity & Access Management), Sensors.
A mobile app to view and track the position of truck in real time
Solution
A touch-enabled android platform solution that allows the user to view the list of trucks along with associated details like driver info, current position of the vehicle and its geo location on maps using data sourced from sensors placed in the vehicles.
Value delivered
Lucida's solution has enabled transporters to track and monitor their trucks in less intrusive and more efficient manner. Response from the field indicates the interface of the app has been a great success with many reporting great user experience.
Tools
Android OS ( 4 to 8), ELB(Elastic Load Balancer), Amazon EC2, Kinesis Shards, Kinesis Producer, Kinesis Stream, Redis, IAM(Identity & Access Management), Sensors.
Mobility application - Store Locator for Auditors
For a leading Market Research firm
Business ask
A mobile app to enable search for and locating of nearest or specific store based on multiple dimensions such as type of store, working hours etc.
Solution
A Xamarin-based solution built on top of Google Maps to allow for searching for a store based on various dimensions.
Value delivered
Lucida's solution has enabled auditors (those who perform quality checks at stores) to reduce the total time spent on road to track and locate the store in the shortest time. Ability to locate the stores by various dimensions allowed the auditors to streamline their field operations more efficiently.
Tools
Xamarin, SyncFusion, Android, IOS
A mobile app to enable search for and locating of nearest or specific store based on multiple dimensions such as type of store, working hours etc.
Solution
A Xamarin-based solution built on top of Google Maps to allow for searching for a store based on various dimensions.
Value delivered
Lucida's solution has enabled auditors (those who perform quality checks at stores) to reduce the total time spent on road to track and locate the store in the shortest time. Ability to locate the stores by various dimensions allowed the auditors to streamline their field operations more efficiently.
Tools
Xamarin, SyncFusion, Android, IOS
Process Automation - Pricing Estimator
For a leading Market Research firm
Business ask
Automation of Pricing process of the cost incurred in data collection activities conducted as part of surveys.
Solution
,NET and JavaScript based solution that is capable of hosting and processing pricing related information to support systematic estimation of cost to be incurred for data collection activities and build the final price to be quoted to the customer requesting survey.
Value delivered
Lucida's solution streamlined the entire process of cost evaluation of data collection methods used for surveys which resulted in improving the consistency of the price quoted to the customers for domestic and international surveys. Automation of the process reduced the total time taken and dependence on manual processes to perform the pricing exercise significantly.
Tools
.Net(C#), ASP.NET MVC, Java Script , JQUERY , SQL 2012, HTML4 , CSS
Automation of Pricing process of the cost incurred in data collection activities conducted as part of surveys.
Solution
,NET and JavaScript based solution that is capable of hosting and processing pricing related information to support systematic estimation of cost to be incurred for data collection activities and build the final price to be quoted to the customer requesting survey.
Value delivered
Lucida's solution streamlined the entire process of cost evaluation of data collection methods used for surveys which resulted in improving the consistency of the price quoted to the customers for domestic and international surveys. Automation of the process reduced the total time taken and dependence on manual processes to perform the pricing exercise significantly.
Tools
.Net(C#), ASP.NET MVC, Java Script , JQUERY , SQL 2012, HTML4 , CSS
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