OMR Software or OMR Scanner

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Technology has taken due course and OMR has evolved from 1960 as a
White Elephant to White Horse . How often people with Low Budget can
afford OMR Data Collection from Document Scanners using Software like
Remark Office OMR . Remark Office OMR is a gem of software with
Document Scanner and solves most of the OMR requirement with ease. Its
affordable and ease of use has made the software the most popular in
the world.

But clients are always stuck up with a single question, OMR Scanner or
OMR Software . I classify the same on two simple basis, one volume and
second the accuracy of OMR Scanners when the volume of data (number of
fields in the application forms ) is high . No wonder Remark can
provide you with the same accuracy as of OMR reader but when we talk of
volume we look forward for OMR Scanners. Some times there remains a
thin line if you chose wrong OMR Scanner with Low Volume and ends up
just making your scanners as white elephant .

OMR Scanners uses pre-printed OMR Forms with very specific design and
High accuracy of registrations with Timing Marks and Bubbles To be very
specific . Just like you do so much with designing OMR Forms, with
Remark Office if you put even half of such efforts immense accuracy can
be achieved . Document Scanners of high speed are available in the
market , but as the speed goes high they tend to become same costly as
dedicated OMR readers . Sekonic series of SR2300 are cost effective OMR
readers which are touted to be the best and friendliest OMR reader
available in the market today .

A rough estimate of SR2300 with Vision OMR/Remark Classic (Software to
grade your answer sheet) with effective speed of 54 ppm will be costing
range of USD 8000 (it can be lower if you chose pencil only read head
etc) . While if you plan to use High Speed Scanners say from Ricoh or
>From Scanmax using Remark Office OMR cost will go somewhere the same .
After that all depends upon the end usage . For Surveys I prefer
Document Scanners and For Examination of High Volume it should be OMR
Scanner.

So Chose the best for your applications and also look what
expandability you expect. So you choice should be a White Horse.