Hi Sailendra,

This is actually OMR - Optical Mark Recognition, which is much simpler and
less error prone than OCR.

Regards,


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Sailendra Mishra <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> Have you ever considered any OCR based survey?  OCR based survey may avoid
> technical and financial constraints (Popular with all major examinations
> conducted in India). Sample here (
> http://chemmunish.com/answer%20key%20+2%20Full%20Physical.JPG).
> It require one time investment on a good OCR machine (really not very
> expensive and  less error-prone).  If the machine is a constraint,  little
> programming with a fast scanner will do the job.
>
>  However, the success with OCR based survey really depends on the
> designing of the survey.
>
> Regards
> Sailendra
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Gora Mohanty <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 30, 2013 10:13 AM, "Samuel Rajkumar" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Respectfully disagree, Nisha.
>> >
>> > There really is no problem with spreadsheets being used to analyze
>> data. But collecting data with paper forms and then typing it into the
>> spreadsheet is just very inefficient and error prone.
>> [...]
>>
>> Agreed. Our experience has been that most organisations are immediately
>> appreciative of the benefits of data collection based on smartphones. As
>> you note, Android smartphones are now cheap, and even with the one-time
>> sunk cost of purchasing the devices, our platform is usually cheaper than
>> paper-based methods, besides being less error-prone. SMS can be used if
>> there is a big sensitivity to price.
>>
>> Spreadsheets are also unstructured, and difficult to convert to API-based
>> access, which is needed for any generic analysis methods not customised to
>> a specific data format embodied in the spreadsheet. IMHO, this is the
>> biggest problem with the current data sets on data.gov.in
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gora
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