| | Postgraduate Medicine: Digital Doc: Optical mark recognition |
 | | It can be contrasted with optical character recognition (see Digital Doc, March 1998, page 37), which turns images of laser-printed characters into machine-readable characters, and intelligent character recognition, which translates handwritten characters into machine-readable characters. |
 | | Accuracy of most OMR systems approaches 100%, versus about 98% for optical character recognition and 95% for intelligent character recognition. |
 | | Then use the OMR software to design a template defining where on the form the software should look for answers and how the bubbles or boxes should be grouped logically for data entry (eg, with six rows of four check-boxes, each of the six rows would be a separate entry). |
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