Re: [election-services] Fw: Components for EML OSI solution

["Simon Bain" <sibain@tendotzero.com>]

David hi.

The liklihood of these scanners not producing some form of usefull output
(text etc) that we can then use and convert to an XML syntax is very very
small.

As long as we are able to get an output (text, even an image that we can
scrape) transforming it to eml will be OK.

Cheers

Simon
<quote who="David Webber \(XML\)">
> Team,
>
> Just received the attached PDF from the OVC group - they have
> this piece of software developed that could be useful.
>
> On the ballot scanning front - off-the-shelf scanners have
> utility software that comes with them - you just need to
> make sure the format of the printed ballot layout is
> scanning friendly.
>
> I almost prefer to use the built-in scanning software -
> since it is generic - and the scripting control language
> it uses can be inspected easily.
>
> Also this opens up the ability to use a wide variety
> of scanners from various vendors.
>
> However - I'm not sure how many of them have the
> ability to produce TEXT or XML output - that can
> be formatted in EML XML to report the result
> details up to the main counting and reconcilation
> software?
>
> Probably the UI details from OVC would work there -
> with witnesses to upload of scanning results - from
> the polling location (effectively xverting the scanner
> results to OASIS EML and then burning to CD
> and transmitting).  Minus the barcoding though -
> we cannot assume that on the ballots - and actually
> would not want that anyway because of privacy
> concerns.
>
> This way - we would have a nice facility that was
> able to integrate with a wide range of existing
> optical scanners out there in election land....
>
> Thoughts?
>
> DW
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