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My day job is working as an AI applied researcher and financial technology entrepreneur. We have three remaining people in our ward who still don't use the online system for paying tithing, and I am a newly called assistant ward clerk.
As I've been training to learn the process for recording and depositing the tithing, I've had the thought that the tithing receipts could be entered more quickly by allowing the clerk or Bishopbric member to take a picture of the tithing receipt, and if something can recognize the handwriting, then it would be potentially faster and possibly less error prone (with modern AI systems) than typing the information in manually. I can use the Azure Form Recognizer API to implement this functionality. I'm thinking I could create a Chrome browser extension that you could download and install. If you're sitting at the computer in the clerk's office you could push a button which would appear on the web page where you enter the tithing receipt, and you could then use a web camera to take a picture of the tithing receipt, and the form would automatically get filled in, and you could then verify if its all correct.
If you are a ward clerk or assistant clerk / financial clerk with responsibilities which include processing the tithing every week, I would appreciate feedback as to whether you would find this helpful (assuming that the system is significantly faster and at least as accurate as you would be entering it in manually)? Would you be willing to chip in some small amount of money per month to access the chrome extension to offset some of the costs in running the infrastructure behind it? Also let me know if anyone else has implemented this functionality. Also, if you have technology skills and would like to work with me on implementing this functionality, please also let me know.
Once we test out the functionality and find it is working well enough using the chrome extension, we could approach church HQ and see if they are willing to integrate it into the website for all to use permanently.
As I've been training to learn the process for recording and depositing the tithing, I've had the thought that the tithing receipts could be entered more quickly by allowing the clerk or Bishopbric member to take a picture of the tithing receipt, and if something can recognize the handwriting, then it would be potentially faster and possibly less error prone (with modern AI systems) than typing the information in manually. I can use the Azure Form Recognizer API to implement this functionality. I'm thinking I could create a Chrome browser extension that you could download and install. If you're sitting at the computer in the clerk's office you could push a button which would appear on the web page where you enter the tithing receipt, and you could then use a web camera to take a picture of the tithing receipt, and the form would automatically get filled in, and you could then verify if its all correct.
If you are a ward clerk or assistant clerk / financial clerk with responsibilities which include processing the tithing every week, I would appreciate feedback as to whether you would find this helpful (assuming that the system is significantly faster and at least as accurate as you would be entering it in manually)? Would you be willing to chip in some small amount of money per month to access the chrome extension to offset some of the costs in running the infrastructure behind it? Also let me know if anyone else has implemented this functionality. Also, if you have technology skills and would like to work with me on implementing this functionality, please also let me know.
Once we test out the functionality and find it is working well enough using the chrome extension, we could approach church HQ and see if they are willing to integrate it into the website for all to use permanently.
We have the companionship principle where the bishopric member should be watching you as you enter information into LCR and then reviewing again before submitting the batch to catch any errors.