> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.assetinfinity.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Scanning a label > Look up the record behind any printed label — by typing its code, with a wedge scanner, or with a camera — and open it. The scan screen turns a code on a label into the record it belongs to. Type the code, let a desk scanner type it for you, or point a camera at the label, and the screen shows what the code names with a button to open it. The scan screen waiting for a code The scan screen waiting for a code ## Getting there | Way in | When | | - | - | | **Scan** in the header | From any screen on a desktop or tablet | | **Scan a label** in the sidebar | On a phone-width window, where the header has no room for the button | | A phone camera on a printed QR code | Every label the product prints carries a short link to this screen with the code already filled in, so scanning a sticker with any phone camera opens the record's summary straight away (you are asked to sign in first if you are not) | Scanning needs no permission of its own. What it finds is limited to what you could already open: a label at a site you cannot reach is reported as not found, exactly like a code that does not exist. Technicians at the machine usually scan from the field app instead, which uses the handset's own camera and works offline — see [scanning in the field app](/field/scan). ## Looking a code up | Control | What it does | | - | - | | Search box — *A code, a tag number, or the link from a sticker* | Type the code, paste the link from a QR code, or click into the box and scan with a wedge (keyboard) scanner, which types the code and presses Enter for you. | | **Look it up** | Searches for the code. Enter does the same. | | **Camera** | Opens a viewfinder using your computer's camera; hold the label up to it and the screen looks it up as soon as it reads the code. **Stop** closes the camera. Offered only in browsers that can decode barcodes. | In a browser with no barcode decoder the screen says so under the box: type the code, use a wedge scanner, or use the field app. If the camera cannot be used — no camera, or permission refused — the screen says **The camera is not available** with the reason, and you can type the code instead. ## What a code can find The lookup tries each kind of code a label can carry: | Record | Matched by | | - | - | | **Asset** | Its asset number, its serial number, one of its other identifiers (for example a legacy tag), or the code on a label printed for it | | **Tool** | Its tool number or serial number | | **Part** | Its part number or barcode | | **Site** | Its site code | | **Location** | Its code, or the location path printed on a location label | | **Visitor** | The reference on a visitor pass | | **Device** | The reference on a device pass issued at the gate | | Any labelled record | An RFID tag number written when the label was printed — the screen notes that this number was written onto the tag and appears nowhere else | A scanned asset label resolved to its asset, with its status, site and location A scanned asset label resolved to its asset, with its status, site and location ## The result A match shows a card naming the kind of record and how it was matched (for example *Asset — matched by asset number*), its name and code, and a few facts so you can confirm it is the right thing before opening it: | Record | Facts shown | | - | - | | Asset | Status, Criticality, Site, Location, Type, Serial | | Tool | Status, Condition, Held by, Site, Calibration, Serial | | Part | On hand, Available, Reorder at, Category, Criticality | | Site | Company, Business unit, Timezone, Assets | | Location | Site, Type, Inside, Assets here, In this branch | | Visitor | Status (Expected, On site, Departed, Cancelled), Company, Host | | Device | Standing (May leave or Held at the gate), At the gate, Whose, Kind, Serial, Site | **Open it** goes to the record's own screen. If nothing matches you see **Nothing here is labelled …** — the code may belong to another system, or to a site you do not have access to. Labels themselves are designed and printed in the [label studio](/config/labels). This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.