hmpb-interpreter

Interprets VotingWorks ballots marked by hand and scanned into images.

Install

``sh


Local install for API usage.

$ yarn add @votingworks/hmpb-interpreter
$ npm install @votingworks/hmpb-interpreter # or, with npm

Global install for CLI usage, or just use npx hmpb-interpreter.


$ yarn global add @votingworks/hmpb-interpreter
$ npm install -g @votingworks/hmpb-interpreter # or, with npm
`

API Usage

`ts
import { Interpreter } from '@votingworks/hmpb-interpreter'

const interpreter = new Interpreter({
// Configure contests via an election.json. Contests on printed ballots must
// appear in the same order they appear in this configuration.
election,

// Require at least 20% filled in targets.
markScoreVoteThreshold: 0.2,
})

while (interpreter.hasMissingTemplates()) {
// Templates are images of blank ballots.
await interpreter.addTemplate(await getNextImage())
}

console.log('Interpreter has templates for all ballot styles and contests!')

const imageData = await getNextImage()
const { ballot } = await interpreter.interpretBallot(imageData)

console.log('Interpreted ballot:', ballot)
`

$3

This library uses node-quirc to decode QR
codes. If you wish to supply your own decoder, pass decodeQRCode to
Interpreter like so:

`ts
// Example custom QR code reader using jsQR
import jsQR from 'jsqr'
import { Interpreter } from '@votingworks/hmpb-interpreter'

const interpreter = new Interpreter({
election,
async decodeQRCode(imageData: ImageData): Promise {
const code = jsQR(imageData.data, imageData.width, imageData.height)
return code ? Buffer.from(code.binaryData) : undefined
})
})
`

CLI Usage

`sh


To try this example out, install globally then clone the repository and cd




to test/fixtures/election-4e31cb17d8-ballot-style-77-precinct-oaklawn-branch-library.

$ hmpb interpret -e election.json \
blank-p1.jpg \
blank-p2.jpg \
filled-in-p1.jpg \
filled-in-p2.jpg
╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╤═══════════════════════╤══════════════════╗
║ Contest │ filled-in-p1.jpg │ filled-in-p2.jpg ║
╟───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼──────────────────╢
║ Member, U.S. Senate │ Tim Smith │ ║
╟───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼──────────────────╢
║ Member, U.S. House, District 30 │ Eddie Bernice Johnson │ ║
╟───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼──────────────────╢
║ Judge, Texas Supreme Court, Place 6 │ Jane Bland │ ║
╟───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼──────────────────╢
║ Member, Texas House of Representatives, District 111 │ Write-In │ ║
╟───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼──────────────────╢
║ Dallas County Tax Assessor-Collector │ John Ames │ ║
╟───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼──────────────────╢
║ Dallas County Sheriff │ Chad Prda │ ║
╟───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼──────────────────╢
║ Member, Dallas County Commissioners Court, Precinct 3 │ │ Andrew Jewell ║
╟───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼──────────────────╢
║ Retain Robert Demergue as Chief Justice? │ │ ║
╟───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼──────────────────╢
║ Proposition R: Countywide Recycling Program │ │ no ║
╟───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼──────────────────╢
║ City Council │ │ ║
╟───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼──────────────────╢
║ Mayor │ │ ║
╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═══════════════════════╧══════════════════╝

You can also request output as JSON.

$ hmpb interpret -e election.json -f json \
blank-p1.jpg \
blank-p2.jpg \
filled-in-p1.jpg \
filled-in-p2.jpg
[
{
"input": "filled-in-p1.jpg",
"interpreted": {
"metadata": {
"locales": {
"primary": "en-US"
},
"ballotStyleId": "77",
"precinctId": "42",
"isTestMode": false,
"pageNumber": 1
},
"votes": {
"us-senate": [
{
"id": "tim-smith",
"name": "Tim Smith",
"partyId": "6"
}
],
"us-house-district-30": [
{
"id": "eddie-bernice-johnson",
"name": "Eddie Bernice Johnson",
"partyId": "2"
}
],
"texas-sc-judge-place-6": [
{
"id": "jane-bland",
"name": "Jane Bland",
"partyId": "3"
}
],
"texas-house-district-111": [
{
"id": "__write-in-0",
"name": "Write-In",
"isWriteIn": true
}
],
"dallas-county-tax-assessor": [
{
"id": "john-ames",
"name": "John Ames",
"partyId": "2"
}
],
"dallas-county-sheriff": [
{
"id": "chad-prda",
"name": "Chad Prda",
"partyId": "3"
}
]
},
"marks": [
{
"type": "candidate",
"contest": "us-senate",
"option": "tim-smith",
"score": 0.7901554404145078,
"bounds": {
"x": 470,
"y": 411,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"target": {
"bounds": {
"x": 470,
"y": 411,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"inner": {
"x": 472,
"y": 413,
"width": 28,
"height": 17
}
}
},
{
"type": "candidate",
"contest": "us-house-district-30",
"option": "eddie-bernice-johnson",
"score": 0.6709844559585493,
"bounds": {
"x": 470,
"y": 831,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"target": {
"bounds": {
"x": 470,
"y": 831,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"inner": {
"x": 472,
"y": 833,
"width": 28,
"height": 17
}
}
},
{
"type": "candidate",
"contest": "texas-sc-judge-place-6",
"option": "jane-bland",
"score": 0.5717884130982368,
"bounds": {
"x": 470,
"y": 1173,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"target": {
"bounds": {
"x": 470,
"y": 1173,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"inner": {
"x": 472,
"y": 1175,
"width": 28,
"height": 18
}
}
},
{
"type": "candidate",
"contest": "texas-house-district-111",
"option": "__write-in-0",
"score": 0.66,
"bounds": {
"x": 872,
"y": 320,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"target": {
"bounds": {
"x": 872,
"y": 320,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"inner": {
"x": 874,
"y": 322,
"width": 28,
"height": 18
}
}
},
{
"type": "candidate",
"contest": "dallas-county-tax-assessor",
"option": "john-ames",
"score": 0.7860824742268041,
"bounds": {
"x": 872,
"y": 556,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"target": {
"bounds": {
"x": 872,
"y": 556,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"inner": {
"x": 874,
"y": 558,
"width": 28,
"height": 17
}
}
},
{
"type": "candidate",
"contest": "dallas-county-sheriff",
"option": "chad-prda",
"score": 0.601010101010101,
"bounds": {
"x": 872,
"y": 916,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"target": {
"bounds": {
"x": 872,
"y": 916,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"inner": {
"x": 874,
"y": 917,
"width": 28,
"height": 18
}
}
}
]
}
},
{
"input": "filled-in-p2.jpg",
"interpreted": {
"metadata": {
"locales": {
"primary": "en-US"
},
"ballotStyleId": "77",
"precinctId": "42",
"isTestMode": false,
"pageNumber": 2
},
"votes": {
"dallas-county-commissioners-court-pct-3": [
{
"id": "andrew-jewell",
"name": "Andrew Jewell",
"partyId": "7"
}
],
"dallas-county-proposition-r": [
"no"
]
},
"marks": [
{
"type": "candidate",
"contest": "dallas-county-commissioners-court-pct-3",
"option": "andrew-jewell",
"score": 0.6624685138539043,
"bounds": {
"x": 67,
"y": 398,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"target": {
"bounds": {
"x": 67,
"y": 398,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"inner": {
"x": 69,
"y": 400,
"width": 28,
"height": 18
}
}
},
{
"type": "yesno",
"contest": "dallas-county-retain-chief-justice",
"option": "yes",
"score": 0.14910025706940874,
"bounds": {
"x": 67,
"y": 869,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"target": {
"bounds": {
"x": 67,
"y": 869,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"inner": {
"x": 69,
"y": 870,
"width": 28,
"height": 18
}
}
},
{
"type": "yesno",
"contest": "dallas-county-proposition-r",
"option": "no",
"score": 0.7455470737913485,
"bounds": {
"x": 470,
"y": 365,
"width": 32,
"height": 22
},
"target": {
"bounds": {
"x": 470,
"y": 365,
"width": 32,
"height": 22
},
"inner": {
"x": 472,
"y": 367,
"width": 28,
"height": 18
}
}
},
{
"type": "candidate",
"contest": "dallas-city-council",
"option": "randall-rupp",
"score": 0.13110539845758354,
"bounds": {
"x": 470,
"y": 647,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"target": {
"bounds": {
"x": 470,
"y": 647,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"inner": {
"x": 472,
"y": 649,
"width": 28,
"height": 17
}
}
},
{
"type": "candidate",
"contest": "dallas-city-council",
"option": "donald-davis",
"score": 0.13212435233160622,
"bounds": {
"x": 470,
"y": 881,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"target": {
"bounds": {
"x": 470,
"y": 881,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"inner": {
"x": 472,
"y": 883,
"width": 28,
"height": 17
}
}
},
{
"type": "candidate",
"contest": "dallas-city-council",
"option": "__write-in-1",
"score": 0.09090909090909091,
"bounds": {
"x": 470,
"y": 1087,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"target": {
"bounds": {
"x": 470,
"y": 1087,
"width": 32,
"height": 21
},
"inner": {
"x": 472,
"y": 1089,
"width": 28,
"height": 18
}
}
}
]
}
}
]
``

License

GPL-3.0