Smart Scanner

Project Title

Smart Scanner

Project Area of Specialization 3D/4D PrintingProject Summary

Project Summary

The aim of our project is to design and program a smart scanner device to autonomously check the exam papers to reduce the faculty work load and increase the efficiency. The device does not only reduce the work load but also cheaper so everyone can approach to it. This is specially designed to check answers of multiple choice questions initially to help educational organizations to overcome their workload, transparency and human error issues.We proposed a technological system to help in generating the results quickly. We will add a raspberry pi 3 camera in the smart scanner forscanning the papers containing answers of multiple choice questions.

We proposed this scanner to help organizations and faculty members to check and generate results without doing any intensive effort. The Scanner will scan quickly in no time. Visual algorithms will detect the images that contain answers of multiple choice questions and generate results.

Project Objectives

We list the objectives of the proposed project.

1. Purchase the required equipment to build the scanner.
2. Build the smart scanner fast enough like heavy duty printer and scan in good quality.
3. Configure and tune the scanner to work easily and feed pages.
4. Incorporating visual camera to the scanner to enable the computer vision algorithm to work with scanner.
5. Scan and detect pages and apply machine learning algorithms. At the initial stage we use the project to solve the objective (multiple choice questions).
6. Produce automatic result and publish online.

Project Implementation Method

Our aim is to build smart scanner to scan papers autonomously at the speed of 60 pages per minute. We apply the computer vision and machine learning methods to enable the smart scanner to detect the answers and generate results. Here are some implementation methods:

1. We build a printer like device to scan the examination papers.
2. Feeding pages that are kept in the input tray to the stage for scanning.
3. Transmission of visual data through the camera fixed on the scanner.
4. The Computer vision algorithm will detect exam papers and generate the results.

Benefits of the Project

  Here are some benefits of the proposed project.

1. The proposed device will quickly scan the document in no time that saves the human time and effort
2. The device will not only scan the document but the visual algorithms will help to generate the results automatically that helps to improve the transparency and accuracy.
3. Increase the efficiency to concentrate on the teaching instead of checking long papers.
4. The device will be cheaper that every teacher can afford it to buy.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

 We build a smart and autonomous scanner. In the final deliverable.

1. The scanner will scan the pages with the speed of 60 pages per minute.
2. The camera will capture the image and pass it to the system to prepare it for the visual algorithms.
3. The visual algorithms will detect the image and generate results.

Final Deliverable of the Project HW/SW integrated systemCore Industry EducationOther Industries IT , Others Core Technology Artificial Intelligence(AI)Other Technologies 3D/4D PrintingSustainable Development Goals Decent Work and Economic GrowthRequired Resources

Item Name	Type	No. of Units	Per Unit Cost (in Rs)	Total (in Rs)
			Total in (Rs)	75220
raspberry pi 3 camera	Equipment	1	5000	5000
DC Motor	Equipment	1	3000	3000
Printer Frame	Equipment	2	1000	2000
Side Frame	Equipment	4	300	1200
Holding Frame	Equipment	6	450	2700
Special Gears	Equipment	9	100	900
Gear guard	Equipment	4	150	600
Rulers	Equipment	6	300	1800
Side Supporters	Equipment	4	280	1120
Paper Holders	Equipment	2	100	200
Paper Floor	Equipment	1	100	100
Paper Forwarding Gear Guard	Equipment	1	800	800
Paper Forwarding Rulers	Equipment	2	400	800
Paper Stage	Equipment	1	300	300
Camera Stands	Equipment	4	50	200
Raspberry Pi	Equipment	2	15000	30000
Printer	Equipment	2	6000	12000
Rim Pages for printing	Equipment	5	500	2500
Wiring cost, travel, stationary	Miscellaneous	1	10000	10000