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Optical Mark Reading software Version 7.0 (Review 2009)

Remark

  • OMRmark Office OMR 7.0 Software works with an image scanner to scan and process your survey or test forms. We've reviewed it and it does what it claims to do, very well. We've never had an unhappy Remark OMR client.
  • OMRmark can't read handwriting, it reads ticks, marks and barcodes which is what efficient forms use.
  • The day software can read normal handwriting as well as a human is the day we all need a new job!
  • We can arrange a demo version (with limitations) but first please read below and consult the price list so you have some idea what specialised software costs.

  Windows based forms-processing OMR software package  

OMR Software

Document Document Scanners are Here

  • OMR = Optical Mark Recognition (A mark in a box = 1 or  0, a/b/c/d etc.)

OMRmark Office OMR is a leading Windows based forms-processing software package for surveys and tests. The software recognizes optical marks (bubbles and checkboxes) and barcodes. With OMRmark Office OMR, you can design your own forms using any word processor, print them on your printer, scan and recognize data with your image scanner and then analyze the data or export the data to the application of your choice! It's that easy! Read on for more information, or use the links to the right for product information, downloads, support and more. 

OMRmark Office Remark - OMR Overview

Creating Forms which you can also download

The OMRmark Office OMR software allows you to create your own forms using any word processor or survey design package. Forms can be printed on a laser printer, photocopied, or sent out to your local printer. We are not involved in the creation of your forms. you have the flexibility to create and duplicate as many as you need.

Remark: Training OMRmark Office OMR to Read Your Form

OMRmark Office OMR is unique in that forms do not require any registration marks or drop-out inks (special printing). Because of this, you have complete flexibility over how the form is set up and where the marks are located. In order for OMRmark Office OMR to read a form, users go through a simple "training" process to show the software how to read the form. The result is a template file that can be used over and over to process forms. Training is accomplished with the OMRmark Office OMR Template Editor. It is a simple procedure where the user scans a form, the software displays the image of the form, and with the mouse, the user drags "boxes" around the areas of marks and fills in some information about these areas (defines what each mark should translate into if filled in). The training session typically takes a few minutes per page.

Remark: Scanning Forms

The OMRmark Office OMR software works with an image scanner to scan and process your survey or test forms. OMRmark Office OMR can read OMR areas, as well as barcode information from your forms. Handwritten and typewritten areas cannot be read by the software but can be captured as image fields for later key entry or viewing by an operator. Built-in exception handling easily locates and allows you to correct or verify any erroneously marked forms (i.e.- a person fills in two marks for a question, or fails to answer a question).

Example Name entry form.. Form designed by The Scanner Place for names entry.

Data Export / download

Once your forms have been scanned and processed the software can save the data to over 30 different output formats for use with virtually any analysis package (such as SPSS, dBase, Access, Excel or Lotus 1-2-3). OMRmark Office OMR can even save your data to an HTML format for publishing on the Internet or to an Intranet. Or, save your data in OMRmark Office OMR's own format and take advantage of the software's built-in analytical tools. 

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Remark: Data Analysis

OMRmark Office OMR includes OMRmark Quick Stats®, which allows you to tabulate surveys or grade tests with the click of a button. For a survey, you can run reports such as an item analysis, item statistics or crosstabs to view your results. If you administer tests, the software can automatically grade them. For a test, you can specify an answer key, grade scale, learning objectives, benchmark scores and other options, and then the software can grade the test and produce statistics and graphs representing the item analysis, frequency distribution, student scores and several other test statistics. OMRmark Office OMR also produces a grade report for each student which can be printed and handed back to the student.

Feature Highlights

  • Forms commonly scanned with OMRmark Office OMR includes surveys, tests, research studies, evaluations, assessments, inventory, field testing, patient history and many others!
  • Exceptional mark recognition (recognizes bubbles and checkboxes)
  • Works with forms you design and duplicate
  • Includes spell checker
  • Process multi-page and double-sided forms
  • Recognizes barcodes
  • Supports nearly all PC desktop scanners
  • Reads image files (PDF, TIFF, PCX)
  • Easy-to-use exception correction facility
  • Eliminates pre-sorting of forms with automatic form, page and respondent identification features
  • Validates information with database verification
  • Grades tests and tabulates surveys
  • Produces customizable graphs of grade/survey results and statistics
  • Calculates statistics including: Item Analysis, Number of Respondents and Tabulations, High/Low Score, Median, Mean, Range, Standard Deviation and Variance, Kuder-Richardson f 20, Coefficient Alpha, P Values, Point Biserial, Frequency Distribution, Class Grades, Student Grade Reports, Comparative Reports.
  • Includes a Grade Wizard which supports multiple answer keys, multiple grade scales, benchmarking and learning objectives
  • Saves data to over 35 different file formats including: SPSS, Access, Excel, dBase, Lotus, HTML, Survey Pro, The Survey System and many more
  • Produces comment reports for open-ended questions
  • 30 days of free technical support.
  • All at an Affordable Price

Remark: Export Formats

You can export data to virtually any spreadsheet, database, or statistical package via one of the following data file formats.

  • OMRmark (RMK)
  • SPSS (SAV)
  • Survey Pro (STL)
  • Survey System (DAT)
  • ASCII [commas] (ASC)
  • ASCII [tabs] (ASC)
  • Spreadsheet [commas]
  • Spreadsheet [tabs]
  • Lotus 1-2-3 (WK1, WK3, WK4)
  • Report (RPT)
  • DIF Files (DIF)
  • LXR Test (MRG)
  • Access 2000-2003 (MDB)
  • Access 95-97 (MDB)
  • Access 2.0 (MDB)
  • Access 1.0 (MDB)
  • CCI Assessment
  • dBase 5.0 (DBF)
  • dBase IV (DBF)
  • dBase III (DBF)
  • Excel 97-2003 (XLS)
  • Excel 95 (XLS)
  • Excel 4.0 (XLS)
  • Excel 3.0 (XLS)
  • Paradox 5.X (DB)
  • Paradox 4.X (DB)
  • Paradox 3.X (DB)
  • ODBC
  • HTML (HTM)
  • XML
  • Custom Text File

Statistics

OMRmark Office OMR comes with its own analysis package, OMRmark Quick Stats. OMRmark Quick Stats provides a detailed analysis of surveys and a complete grade report for tests:

Survey Statistics include:

  • For each item OMRmark Quick Stats calculates: Mean, Variance, Standard Deviation, Standard Error, Min, Max, Range, Median, Skewness, Kurtosis, T-Value, Percentiles, Confidence Intervals
  • For each answer choice OMRmark Quick Stats calculates: Frequencies, Percentages, Valid Percent
  • A Response Report displays all of the handwritten comments for any Image field on one, easy to read, report
  • Crosstabs
  • Group Report displaying means for question groupings (new version only)

Test Statistics include:

  • A Grade Wizard steps you through the process of setting up an answer key, grade scale, questions points, learning objectives, benchmark scores and other grading information for your test
  • For each item OMRmark Quick Stats calculates: Mean, Variance, Standard Deviation, Standard Error, Min, Max, Range, Median, Skewness, Kurtosis, T-Value, Percentiles, Confidence Intervals, P-values, Point Biserial Correlation
  • For each answer choice OMRmark Quick Stats calculates: Frequencies, Percentages, Point Biserial
  • For each student OMRmark Quick Stats calculates: Total score, Raw score, Grade, Dev. IQ, Number correct, incorrect, unanswered
  • For the test OMRmark Office OMR calculates: Number of graded tests and items, Max, Min, Median, Range, Percentile scores, Mean, Variance, Standard Deviation, Confidence Intervals (1,5,95,99%), KR 20, KR21, Coefficient (Cronbach) Alpha
  • A Grade Report displays each student's results on the test and optionally includes an image of the test
  • A Group Report displaying grades for specific subsets of your data (new version only)

A variety of graph types are also included (all of which can be copied and printed):

  • Pie
  • Bar
  • Horizontal Bar
  • Line
  • Area
  • Point
  • Polar
  • Fast Line

Image Formats

OMRmark Office OMR can process forms that have been saved as image files. This features allows OMRmark to read incoming faxes and pre-scanned forms.

  • Macintosh Picture (PCT)
  • Multipage PCX (DCX)
  • PCX
  • PDF
  • Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
  • TIFF (Uncompressed)
  • TIFF CCITT G3
  • TIFF CCITT G3 (2d)
  • TIFF CCITT G4
  • TIFF Multipage
  • Windows Bitmap (BMP)
  • Windows Metafile (WMF)

System Requirements

  • Personal Computer with 1-GHz or faster processor
  • Microsoft Windows 2000, XP or Server 2003
  • 512 MB RAM
    • Important Note: Analysis reports require memory to run. Lengthy or graphic-intensive reports may take longer to run; you may need additional memory to run these reports.
  • 250 MB Hard Disk Space to install software
  • 1 GB free hard disk space recommended to use software
  • Screen/monitor resolution of 1024x768 or higher and at least 16-bit color (32-bit color recommended)
  • Mouse
  • CD-ROM Drive (for installation purposes)
  • Supported scanner (recommended)
  • Windows Supported Printer (optional)

New in Version 7.0 Released 2009

OCR. OCR (optical character recognition) has been added to the software in order to automatically recognize machine-printed characters.

• Recognition/processing updates. There have been several updates to recognition and processing, including:

�� Missing/damaged mark recognition. The recognition algorithms have been updated to better recognize missing or broken marks within a region. This means that if one or more marks in a region is missing or degraded, Remark Office OMR will still be able to read the marks in many cases.

�� Deskew/despeckle. Deskew/despeckle support has been added when scanning forms or reading from image files to improve recognition.

�� Colour/greyscale scanning. You can scan in colour or greyscale without having to show your scanner’s TWAIN interface. The options are now available in the Scanner Properties window.

• Printing and exporting multiple reports. The ability to print, export, and generate multiple reports has been added to Remark Quick Stats in the form of a Report Batch Wizard. Reports can be exported to a single combined file or individually to separate files. Report batches can be saved and reloaded.

• Auto filtering of data. The ability to auto-filter reports has been integrated into the new Report Batch Wizard in Remark Quick Stats. You can select up to three separate fields by which to break down data into separate reports. For each unique set of records, a new report set will be generated automatically. For example, if you process course evaluations, Remark Quick Stats can automatically separate each instructor’s results into individual reports.

• Duplicate detection. You can optionally flag duplicate entries in a data set to alert you to a potential problem (e.g., when scanning tests a student’s ID number comes up twice).

• Answer key utility. The Grade Wizard has been broken out into its own utility, which can be accessed without launching the entire Remark Office OMR application. In addition, the Answer Key utility/Grade Wizard can now save what is called a Generic answer key file (*.gaky) that does not save any information for ungraded questions. This allows a generic answer key to be applied to any form type with enough graded questions and answer choices.

• Reusing learning objectives. Learning objectives/Analysis group names can be imported from a database or spreadsheet format into the Grade Wizard/Survey Wizard. You may select the objectives you wish to use from a list upon import.

• New barcode types. New barcode functionality has been added so that the software reads many new 1D and 2D barcode types. Textual barcodes can now contain multiple items separated by a delimiter (e.g., you can have multiple textual items in one barcode and separate them into separate fields in the data grid).

• Ranking question type. A ranking question type was added to the OMR region types so that you can have respondents rank items in a list.

• Instant graphs. A graph viewer has been added to the Data Centre to display an item analysis of the current field in the data. The graph viewer is split with the image viewer at the bottom of the screen.

• Report updates. The following updates have been made to specific reports:

�� Crosstab Report: The correct answer is now marked with an asterisk when grading. �� Item Statistics Report: You may now sort the Item Statistics by question difficulty. �� Detailed Item Analysis: You may now sort the data on the Detailed Item Analysis Report.

• Extra credit questions for test grading. Support for extra credit questions has been added through the Grade Wizard. Extra credit questions do not count toward the total points possible for the test, so any points scored on extra credit questions are in fact "extra" and make it possible to score over 100% on a test.

• Qualitative response coding. For data entry style image regions, you can now enter a list of qualitative response codes and values when setting up the region. Response codes can also be loaded, edited, and saved. Image regions with response codes have a drop-down list in the data grid and Review Exceptions pane. The response choices are also sent down to Remark Quick Stats for analysis (as a multiple choice style question) and to exported data.

• Review exceptions updates. Several updates have been made to the Review Exceptions functionality:

�� Skipping exception flag types. When reviewing exceptions in the data, you can optionally skip certain flag types and the flag will be removed. This feature allows you to review data multiple times without having to review areas that have already been reviewed.

�� Reviewing exceptions with database lookup. When reviewing a database lookup error, once the correct lookup value is set, the appended fields from the database will be filled automatically based on the entry entered for the lookup region.

�� Exception flags update. The exception flags in the Data Centre have been replaced with user-friendly colour-coded cells.

• Flexible report header use. Report headers are now much more flexible and can be tied to individual tests or surveys. You can now define report headers within the Grade or Survey Wizard, allowing you to create and reuse specific report headers that will always be used with that particular test or survey.

• Name builder. A Name Builder has been added to the Read Wizard that when clicked will display a new dialog that can be used to create dynamic image names and paths based on recognized data. You can add fields from your data set to the image base name and to the path statement.

• Package and rename images. An option has been added to the Read Wizard called "Package and rename images". When reading from images, the images will be repacked into a new folder based on your selections. For example, a set of single page PCX files could be repackaged as a multiple page PDF file where each PDF is named based on the respondent’s first and last name (from the data set).

• Allow blanks option. An "Allow Blanks" option has been added to the Template Editor so that you can specify not to flag blank responses for certain questions (e.g., blanks might be okay because a large portion of the respondents will end up skipping this question based on responses to previous question(s)).

• Interface updates. The toolbars and task pane have an updated look and feel. In addition, many open and save windows have directory history listings to help you quickly navigate to file locations, and the recently used file list is now common between the Template Editor and Data Centre.

• FTP utility. An FTP utility has been added to the software to allow you to easily move exported files to a server or other application.

• Access/Excel 2007 support. The ability to open and save data to the Access and Excel 2007 formats has been added.

• Native SQL and Oracle support. Remark Office OMR can save data directly to the SQL or Oracle formats without having to go through an ODBC connection.

• Database saving options. When saving to a database where one or more fields are too small to hold the data being saved, Remark Office OMR attempts to resize the database column so that it will hold the data being saved. You have the option to resize the columns or allow the excess data to be truncated.

• Saving stored image file names. When saving data, you can save the stored image file name using the advanced data saving options.

• Automation Wizard enhancements. The Automation Wizard has been updated to include the ability to open data files, launch report batches, apply generic answer keys and utilize configuration files saved through the Advanced options in the Save Data window.

• Grid column tooltips. A balloon tip is displayed over data grid column headers in the Data Centre to display pertinent information about the region/question.

• Database lookup automatic reconnection. You can now reconnect a form template to a database if the database is moved after setting up database lookup, eliminating the need to setup the entire connection again.

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