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linguy
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May 11, 2020
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Looking for an automated function with Ruler

  • May 11, 2020
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Hello, I'm not sure if what I'm looking for exists, but I'll explain it anyways.

 

At my workplace, we are doing a project that involves taking paper surveys we have, scanning them, and using Photoshop, we use the Ruler function to measure how answers that used a Visual Analog Scale (think a bar from 0-100, participants mark an X on the line somewhere they think is appropriate for their survey answer). The Ruler function is great because we get consistent measurements for every survey, but it takes a lot of time because each survey has about 10 Scales on 1 sheet and we have over 200 surveys.

 

I was wondering if there's anyway to make this process faster, somehow automate it. Maybe this doesn't exist, but I figured I would ask anyways, thanks for the input.

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melissapiccone
melissapiccone
Braniac
May 11, 2020

You might be able to do something with actions. It sounds like you need human eyes looking at the surveys.

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L
linguyAuthor
New Participant
May 12, 2020

Ah I see, what would Actions enable?

Stephen Marsh
Stephen Marsh
Braniac
May 12, 2020

I don't know exaclty how you could use them but every little bit helps. I can tell you some of the ways I use them and maybe you can extrapoloate. I use actions to create a new document and add guides or just add guides. While that might not seem like much, making guides is tedius and takes me a minute or so and an action is instant. Maybe you create an action that will open and close the images for you? Created guides, turn on rulers? I don't know... you'll have to see what part of your work flow can be automated. 


Please post a few loosely cropped example images, Photoshop is mostly about images, so although text descriptions are somewhat helpful it is all about image processing.

 

Have you looked for specialist software solutions in this field?

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