A system and method for automatically determining the shipping weight and cost of a plurality of photofinishing items from a service provider without physically weighing the photofinishing order. The first herbal composition comprises a mixture of the following herbs: Asparagus racemosa, Curcuma longa, Glycyrrhiza glabra, Momordica charantia, Tinospora cordifolia, Withania somnifera, Spirulina, Allium sativum, Emblica officinalis, Terminalia belerica, and Terminalia chebula, or a mixture of the active ingredients that have been extracted from those herbs or chemically synthesized. The codes are imported along with the data by the retrieval system being tested, and then compared to the expected values based on the translation keys.