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NGO Paper Register Digitizer

Photograph paper registers and get a clean spreadsheet.

Intermediate14h1–2 people17/20 fit
TL;DR

Build NGO Paper Register Digitizer for grassroots ngos in ~14h with 1–2 people. Stack: Vision LLM + Next.js + CSV.

Why it wins: Unlocks data for small NGOs.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Years of beneficiary data sit in handwritten registers.
02 · Solution
Capture pages, extract tables with a vision model, let staff fix low-confidence cells and export to a spreadsheet.
03 · Build
  1. 1Capture images
  2. 2Extract tables
  3. 3Review UI
  4. 4Export
04 · Demo
Photograph a register page and export rows.

MVP checklist

  • Page capture
  • Table extraction
  • Confidence review
  • Export

Tech stack

TechRole
Vision LLMImage understanding
Next.jsFrontend + API routes
CSVData import

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