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What can recognise handwritten check marks and notes on a survey questionnaire?

I have some questionnaires that are manually filled. Its couple of multiple choice questions & one of the MCQ has a comment section.

People have just scratched (big & small ticks, crossing, underlining, circling - nothing uniform to look for) the response.

I now want to digitize the data, but I am aware of the limitations. So, I am attempting to do what I can. I am thinking for check marks, I just define an area around the choice for MCQ and any form of marking will be considered by comparing it to a blank/unresponded questionnaire. In the same way, identify the written portion for comments and clip it. In the end, get the clipped portion in a webform that a human was just transcribe.

On googling, I find opencv might help me - mine is very messy. But could not find any sample project to figure if it works. I am just starting with exploring the options in opencv. I am just seeing openCV for the first time.

Any tips or suggestions or guidance to speed up my process. Will opencv be able to do what need?