Scanning Module
Scanning Module - Scan paper questionnaires and forms The Snap Scanning Module is an add on to Snap Professional Edition enabling users to scan in completed paper questionnaires. Snap Scanning Module is based on OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and OMR (Optical Mark Recognition). Snap will also scan in questionnaires designed in other software packages.
Scanning
- Detection via locator block, calibration or definition to specify location of boxes
- Distinguishes between a tick/check and a box that is crossed out
- Recognition of numbers and hand-printed text
- Density of marking can be tailored
- Images of responses for written literal and quantity responses can be printed into a data report
- Can detect and accommodate flaws in printing of questionnaires
- Questionnaires can be "deskewed"
- Once the questionnaires are detected, data is stored in Snap for analysis
- Can be used with other methods of data entry
"As it was so time consuming entering over a thousand completed questionnaires, I looked to the Scanning Module which has been great. The set up is more or less the same as normal and no more hassle, but the input is so easy. The accuracy of the survey is superb."
Helen Payne,
Wiltshire College
"We have recently added the scanning module to our system and I was surprised by how simply this works – as if by magic. This is the thing with Snap it is shockingly simple!"
Barbara Murray,
Villages Housing Association Limited