I saw many outdated posts on ODK Scan and a single unanswered OCR Post.
Seeing as many of these posts seemed to trail off in 2015 and OCR has come a long way in the last decade, has there been any more recent developments on this or any renewed interest in the community to meet this need? Even if this wasn't incorporated into ODK Collect itself, I would think having a very simple external app like ODK Counter that could perform this function could be a game changer for some scenarios with lots of numerical manual data entry and improving quality control.
What high-level problem are you trying to solve?
There are a number of scenarios that I have where I am using an external device (usually a digital scale) for many repeat measurements. Most frequently it's taking mass. I would like to have illiterate/inumerate people be able to "scan" a screen more quickly, and more importantly, more accurately record/digitize these decimal values in a decimal/integer/text question without the need for manual entry.
Before being able to print barcodes I used a photo question with manually written numbers with a photo question and for the scenario above, I'm still just taking photos of the digital scale as a backup/verification source.
Any ideas on how ODK could help you solve it?
Without doing anything more involved within the photo/number questions, I think the easiest thing would be an external app that could feed strings into any necessary question.
In my free time, I've been trying to learn the basics of Flutter and this could be a fun project to develop an external Android/iOS app, but honestly have no idea if I'd be able to achieve this.
Upload any helpful links, sketches, and videos.
Here are some image examples of screens I'd be interested in getting into a integer/decimal question:
