I am using
LimeSurvey Community Edition   Version 6.13.0+250415 
hosted on my own EC2 instance.
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Can I get a paper survey converted to a limesurvey (.lss)? I tried ChatGPT but it created an invalid .lss file. Has anyone had any luck taking a picture (.jpg) and getting it converted to a limesurvey?

Thanks
 

I am not aware of any automatic feature like this.

Stay away from ChatGPT, it will deliver you with answers as if it knows what it is doing.

But in my experience ChatGPT has no idea of Limesurvey, but will still deliver answers as if it does ("AI-Halluzinations").

I think this feature you are looking for would be a killer feature, but I also think that we are still far away from that. I haven't seen such a feature in other survey software so far (that doesn't mean it doesn't exist, of course).

But I guess the first step would be to use a Word document first, rather than do it from a picture.

Hi, here I show the relevant part of the manual of another - commercial and expensive - tool that deals with this kind of import

IMPORTING QUESTIONNAIRES AS FORMATTED TEXT
Creating basic questionnaires in Word (or other text editors), importing them as flat text files and subsequently finetuning them to perfection in XXX is an easy and fast alternative to designing an advanced questionnaire directly in XXX.
Within a few easy steps you can prepare any Word document (for example the questionnaire your client prepared) in a text editor like Notepad after which it can be imported in a project as a flat text document.
This way you can create complete questionnaires, including question texts, items, answer options, helptexts, skips and expressions.

Example:

1. Do you wish to participate in our questionnaire?
# Partici
O Yes
O No -->Q10

2. What is your sex?
#Sex
O Male
O Female

3. What is your age?
#Age
O Underage --> Q10
O 18-35 years old
O 36-50 years old
O 51-65 years old
O Older --> Q10

4.
* SKIP
& Q2 =2 -> Q6

5. Please select all the drinks you have ever tasted in your live
# Drinks
* Multi response
O Water
O Lemonade
O Fizzy drinks
O Beer
O Wine
O Hard liquor
O Other nl...

6.
* SKIP
& Q3 = 2-> Q8
& Q3 has [1, 2, 3] -> Q10

7. What is your opinion about the taste of?
# Taste
*Items popup
! Very good
! Good
! Normal
! Bad
! Very bad
O Water
O Lemonade
O Fizzy drinks
O Beer
O Wine
O Hard liquor

8. Would you like to participate in our research more often?
O Yes
O No

9. Could you comment on your refusal of future participation?
# Comments
* Open answer
& Q8 = 1

10. End of questionnaire
* end

Guidelines for creating a formatted text file

All question names must start with a letter, not a number or an other character. If the question name does not start with a letter, Dub Import will add a 'Q' to it automatically.

The items of an item list and the labels of an Items popup question are imported in the same order as they are listed in the text file.
Note that the import routine does NOT check the number of labels/answer options! XXX has a limit of ten labels for Items popup questions so items exceeding the limit of 10 will be ignored.

Help text (‘?’) can be used to add extra instructions/explanations for interviewer or respondent. This text will be available through a special 'Help' button that automatically appears in the interview screen when a help text is specified

A question should be constructed according to the following format:

• Question text should be preceded by: Q<number of question>.
     Example: Q1: What is the brand of your car?
• All answer options should be preceded by: a capital 'O' or a zero (‘0’)
• In case of an open alternative, add ‘nl.’ or ‘nl’’
• The operator '&' in a question defines a condition for the question to be asked. So the arrow sign ‘->’ representing a routing is never used

But to be honest: In about 15 years when I cooperated with a company that used this software we never used this feature.
It was too time consuming to format the text; much faster to click the question type and copy/paste the texts.

But you could use a syntax like this and create your own script that analyses and then writes a *.lss file (while I'd prefer to write a *.txt file)

Joffm