Tool mistook number fields for checkboxes

timpaul / form-extractor-prototype

A prototype of a tool that generates web forms from document forms

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Tool mistook number fields for checkboxes #17

Open timpaul opened 5 months ago

timpaul commented 5 months ago

On this image, the tool interpreted the number fields in question 35 for a series of checkboxes:

This is a great example of where the context required to correctly interpret the question is pretty subtle.

You need to know that:

The question is asking for some numbers
Checkboxes are always square

timpaul commented 5 months ago

I added the following description to the tool:

answer_type: If a question contains square boxes, it's probably a multiple_choice question. If it's asking how many of something there is, it's probably a number question.

This kind of worked!

It now correctly identifies that this is a number type question. However, it can't display multiple number fields for a question, because there's no nunjucks template for that.