This talk will give an introduction into SDAPS how it works and how it can be used automate surveys or even examinations on paper. In the core SDAPS is an optical mark recognition software that is integrated with LaTeX and LibreOffice. It provides all the utilities to automate simple surveys, including questionnaire creation, manual error correction, and a simple report generation module. Also important is its flexibility to be used for data acquisition by either exporting the data or even interfacing with SDAPS python API directly for specialized applications. Benjamin Berg