janblumenkamp
commented
6 years ago Regarding (refer issue 72)
Scan manually typed information? Handwriting recognition is hard :/
I was more thinking about boxes to be checked. The score sheets would need to be designed in a way that everything can be marked by checkboxes. Things like comments don't need to be digitalized, it's sufficient if the comment and signing area is just cropped and stored without actually OCR-ing it. Most of the scoring sheets can be digitalized that way. The last 10 or something need to be checked by a human. I think the biggest barrier between the scoring system and persons using it it the fact that mobile devices are necessary. Not everybody has the capabilities to borrow or buy like 10 devices. Utilizing paper would be the first step for everybody to accept the system. If they see that it generally works well they will consider using mobile devices.
rrrobo
The score sheet could be generated in a way that it would be easy to scan them into the system after creating them with #72 . This way we have the automation of the competition and the fail-safety of using paper score sheets as backups without having the organizational effort to manually type in score sheets to the system.