When processing printed forms and surveys, Sentenium's high-performance scanning technology goes through three basic stages:

1. Document input

We can scan surveys of any length, whether one page or multiple pages. Documents can be as small as 3x5 (inches) and as large as 11x17.

2. Data conversion

Our software looks for marks or hand-written characters and converts them into electronic form.

How our machines scan the data and how quickly they scan it depends on whether the forms are Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) or Optical Character Recognition -based. (See Form and Survey Design for definitions of OMR and OCR.)

3. Data verification and cleaning

The software flags all questionable documents, which might include surveys that have blank fields, multiple responses to one question, or information that the software cannot read. Those documents can then be addressed one by one.

The end result: Your documents are processed with near-100% accuracy.