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 >> >> -- >> For more details about this list >> http://datameet.org/discussions/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "datameet" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > Sailendra Prasanna Mishra > > Linkedin: http://in.linkedin.com/in/sailendraprasannamishra > Twitter: https://twitter.com/sailendram > Skype: Sailendra.prasannam > > "Few people in this world who make mistakes in right direction." > > -- > For more details about this list > http://datameet.org/discussions/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
