Hi!
Use of SDAPS in your situation is imho possible, but difficult. SDAPS is
based on supposition ,that you prepare a questtionare using SDAPS and
LaTeX with a special SDAPS documentclass. As a side product LaTeX
produces several files, one of them contains exact positions of
chechboxes, which is needed for good recognition. Your questionaires
are already printed and filled in, so you would have to try to mimic
those questionaires (or at least positions of checkboxes] using LaTeX
and special SDAPS documentclass, which is not easy. Even if you are an
experienced LaTeX user, the SDAPS documentclass is rather restricting.
My recommendation: look at
https://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/software/RescueOMR/. I have not tried it,
but it seems to be designed for your situation.
This software expects you to manually identify positions of existing
checkboxes in a scanned empty questionaire using Inkscape.
Jiri Demel
Dne 23. 02. 20 v 14:27 Matthis Rouch napsal(a):
Hi! As far as I know sdaps does not have this functionality out of the box.
I have done sdaps data extractions with non-sdaps generated questionnaires, by
specifying the location of the checkboxes manually, but my questionnaires did
have the corner marks used by sdaps to rectify rotation caused by scanning.
If there is enough space on your questionnaire on the edges you may be able to
print just the corners used by sdaps on the questionnaires with the answers,
but this seams quite convoluted, and I’m not sure it will work.
Matthis
On Feb 23, 2020, at 21:34, duncan ng'enda <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
My mum is a PHD candidate and she created a simple survey using Word and this
was filled in by about 1000 respondents .
It is not time to analyse this data and manual processing is proving difficult.
I am trying to assist her by exploring automated tooling to extract the data of
scans she did of every filled questionnaire. Ideally, if we had thought this
through from the beginning, we would have used SDAPS for the design and
formatting which would have made reading them much simpler. This is not the
case however.
Has anyway tried extracting data from a survey not created via SDAPS?
Many thanks
Duncan Ng'enda
Nairobi Kenya.
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