Hi !! I would like to participate in GSOC '18 as a student.
Project idea :
Optical Character Recognition tool for ODK.
According to me it would be a useful tool for the community.
In certain scenarios, paper based data collection is unavoidable. Through this tool, users would be able to easily convert paper based forms into digital forms. Although ODK scan helps to do so, it requires manual text input and capture images through android app.
Features :
1. The proposed tool should be able to receive images from various sources like local machine, mobile, remote cloud storage like Google Drive,etc.
2. Tool can be a core library which can be used as an plugin to any project.
3. Use latest technologies to generate accurately filled forms.
4. Provide an interface to manually verify data and correct it if needed.
5. Prompt user in situations where text couldn't be determined.
6. Able to add support for new languages easily.
7. Choose template form.
Link for discussion and feature request.