Thanks Samuel for the correction.

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Samuel Rajkumar <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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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