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QR matching & review

After the upload, Pixalo recognises the card photos and splits the shots into sections. Each section belongs to a child or a group. You only check what is open.

Updated 9 October 20263 min read

At a glance

  • No face recognition, no app, no clock. Just the order and the cards.
  • You assign open cases with a few clicks, even with the keyboard.
  • What you assign by hand is never overwritten by a later upload.
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How matching works

Pixalo reads the photos in the order of photo day.

  • A card photo opens a section. All following photos belong to it until the next card.
  • The group card opens a group section. All children of the group see these photos.
  • Photos before the first card end up under Unsorted photos.
  • Card photos themselves never appear in a gallery. They stay in the dashboard.
  • What you assign by hand stays that way. Even if you upload more photos later.

Photo order

Pixalo orders the photos by your camera's capture time. If the QR cards then end up clearly in the wrong place, for example because they were photographed later or with another device, Pixalo uses the order of the file names. Once photos are assigned and visible, Pixalo no longer switches the order by itself. If Pixalo is unsure, you see a notice. Under "Order" you can always choose between capture time and file name yourself. Photos you assigned yourself stay as they are.
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The matching view

Open it via the Match photos step in the job's workflow or via Go to review after the upload.

  1. 1Counters: assigned photos, card photos, unknown cards, unsorted photos.
  2. 2Overview: the whole photo day in one line. Each block is a child or a group, lines are cards. Click to jump there.
  3. 3Film strip: the shots before and after, cards included. You see right away where a border has slipped.
  4. 4Bar: selection, class, child or group photo, Assign and Move to unsorted.
  5. 5Assignments: all sections per group with name, photo count and preview.
Colour in the overviewMeaning
GreenAssigned to a child.
BlueGroup photo. All children of the group see it.
RedUnsorted. Something to do here.
Yellow lineA card without a match in this job.

Live during processing

While photos are being processed, the view refreshes itself every five seconds. Even with a thousand shots, the overview stays one line.
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Assign photos

The review opens with the first open shot. You see the photo large, next to it the reason and the film strip.

  1. 1Tick: adds the photo to the selection. Several photos at once are possible.
  2. 2Class: narrows the list.
  3. 3Target: a child or the class group photo. Typing searches.
  4. 4Assign: the photo moves to the right gallery right away.
  5. 5Move to unsorted: for anything filed wrongly. It waits there safely.

Faster with the keyboard

Left and right arrow jump to the previous and next open shot. A hundred photos are done in a few minutes.
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Open cases

Click a card in the film strip and the review explains what it read.

  1. 1Notice: the code read belongs to no child of this job.
  2. 2Unknown: the card in the film strip. The photos after it stay unsorted.
CaseWhat you do
UnsortedPhotos without a card before them. Parents do not see them. Pixalo deletes them automatically after 30 days. Assign them before.
Unknown cardA card from last year, from another job or after the codes were reprinted. Assign the photos after it to the right child.
Two cards in one framePixalo chose the larger one and flagged the photo. Briefly check the section is right.
Forgotten cardThe photos end up with the previous child. Select them and assign them to the right child.
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Clean up

Clean up deletes all unsorted photos and all card photos. Assigned photos are untouched. This saves storage once the review is done.

Permanent

Deleted photos cannot be recovered. Only clean up when nothing is open any more.
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Frequently asked questions

Does Pixalo use face recognition?

No. Matching relies only on the cards and the order. No biometric data is created.

What happens when I upload more photos?

Pixalo matches the whole job again. Your manual assignments are kept.

Do parents see unsorted photos?

No. They only see photos assigned to their child or their child's group.

A group photo ended up with one child. What now?

Select the photo, choose the class, pick the class group photo as target and assign. Next time photograph the group card first.

Continue to sending the gallery

Send the gallery

Everything assigned? Then send the families their access codes by email.