Method for automatically capturing data from non-networked production equipment

A method for automatically capturing data from non-networked production equipment includes:

• accessing a video feed captured by an optical sensor in a mobile device manipulated by an operator while performing a step of an augmented digital procedure at a machine in the facility;
• accessing a definition of a feature corresponding to a display coupled to the machine, the step in the augmented digital procedure specifying data capture from the display;
• scanning the video feed for the feature;
• in response to detecting the feature in a first image in the video feed, detecting the display in a first region of the first image;
• extracting a first value, presented on the display, from the first region of the first image;
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• storing the first value in a procedure file for the augmented digital procedure completed at the machine.

A method for automatically capturing data from non-networked production equipment includes:

• accessing a video feed captured by an optical sensor in a facility;
• selecting an image in the video feed;
• detecting a display on a machine depicted in a region of the image;
• identifying the machine depicted in the image;
• retrieving a data extraction model, from a set of data extraction models, linked to the display and the machine;
• extracting a value from the region of the image based on the data extraction model;
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• storing the value in a procedure file associated with the machine.