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Remarkable Experience of Gravic Remark Software

** This is an OLD Post from my Old Google Group, but still Valid Today ** In this issue we would like to discuss various experience of our  customers. And we take case study of Maharashtra Private Medical  College Entrance Examination. The Exam was a typical pattern of 200 questions 50 each of Physics, Chemistry, Zoology and Botany . The Form was already designed before the client decided to purchase  Remark Office OMR Software . Prof Sunil Wagah who is also the Vice Principal of reputed Mahatma Gandhi Mission Trust Engineering College at Noida , and a Computer professional himself , decided to purchase Remark Office OMR . " While the issue with us was how to read forms without roll number designed as an OMR field and sorting them or data entry of  some  difficult task, further how will we take care of absentees " .  How can  this be achieved required a technical as well as managerial experience  of handling processing and data work. Even though the volume was lo

What is OMR Technology

OMR refers to the technique of converting a handwritten marks into an  ASCII value. The Mark is created by filling a circle or a box on a  pre-printed form . The presence or absence of a Mark in a specific location is then converted into a value such as a selection in a multi- choice question,  the selection of one item in a list of several, or even to code a  specific numeric or alphanumeric value, such as a date using six columns of 10 boxes or name with 26 columns etc Thus, if a Mark by itself can only generate a binary choice (presence or absence), the combination of several marks arranged on a form can  provide intelligent answers to questions and be used as a fast and accurate replacement to data entry in many applications.   Basically an OMR Reader is only intelligent to accurately give the position of the marks , interpretation of marks is an important aspect and more than  often known as Template Creation .   Optical marks recognition is traditionally perfo