EasyFill
No one likes filling out forms, but the routine tasks of filling out taxes or visa applications are especially hard for the visually impaired. As a result, we came up with an idea of a smart scanner application that would save the time and energy of people who wouldn’t be able to read the forms on their own.
We created a scanner Android application that takes a photo of the form, crops the image so that the 4 edges of the paper match the 4 edges of the camera (which would accommodate people who can’t see well enough to perfectly line up the edges of the paper with the edges of the camera), and uses an algorithm we developed to detect the locations of each text box that needs to be filled in. Next, it verbally prompts the user (who can also use the UI buttons to go to the previous text box, the next text box, or print out the form) as it goes through each textbox one by one and saves their answers, eventually returning a PDF of the form with all the text boxes filled in with user input to be emailed / printed out. For our purposes, we wanted to code a smartphone application because we felt like the convenience of having your phone be able to read text and fill out forms for you would be very appealing.
After we got the chance to discuss our idea with some mentors and people who had first hand experience with visual struggles, we decided that our idea could potentially be very useful and practical, but we needed more verbal prompts in order to make the experience even more intuitive. We also decided to try to minimize the number of buttons in our UI in order to give the user a more intuitive, streamlined experience. All in all, we hope that our project will be able to make the lives of people in our community better.
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