Objective
- Extend styles and materials assistance so equipment photos can drive structured autofill when legible labels are present (for example manufacturer, model, serial number, manufacture date encoded in serials, capacity stickers).
- This is intentionally narrower than the full styles-and-materials workflow in ATT-1675.
Background
- May 15 feature sync (Chris): After ATT-1675 establishes the manual plus AI-assisted shell, a subset of value can come from reading labels in photos rather than only free-form comments.
- Examples called out: manufacturer date and serial number patterns—inspectors already photograph nameplates; the product should reuse that asset instead of retyping.
- Decision needed: minimum OCR / vision quality bar, PII handling for serials, and human confirm before writing authoritative report fields.
Scope
Report Writer product (primary)
- Decision needed: which styles and materials slots accept label-derived suggestions and which remain manual-only for liability reasons.
Vision / ML pipeline
- Label detection versus full-frame OCR—Decision needed latency budget on device vs server.
Backend
- Persistence and provenance (which photo, which bounding box or crop, confidence)—coordinates with ATT-1672 when schemas live in Attik backend.
Codebase audit note
attik-frontend,attik-backend, andattik-mobileunder this audit did not expose Report Writer authoring modules by name; implementation likely lives in the Report Writer app repo or branch—link it here when known.attik-frontend/src/app/client/reports/components/StylesAndMaterialsCard.tsxonly reflects published observation rendering for clients, not authoring.
