Software Gets a Grip on Handwriting

Australian software developer EB Strada Pty has added to the growing armoury of data collection tools available to researchers. FormReturn 1.0 offers a cross-platform optical mark recognition (OMR) system for simpler analysis of hand-written data such as that on questionnaires.

The firm says OMR technology has been in wide use since the 1960s, but the new release promises to lower costs and reduce the need for specialist training with integrated design, tracking and capture of forms and a client/server approach.

FormReturn allows users to create, publish, automatically mark and score questionnaires, from which data is stored in a built-in SQL compliant database.

Web sites are at www.formreturn.com and www.ebstrada.com .

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