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OMR SHEET

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OPTICAL MARK READER SHEET (OMR SHEET) is a technically designed sheet which is used in objective type examinations or any other data which has multiple choice options to be filled by the applicant. It is designed with circles/ovals and rectangles. The circles/ovals are generally in Pink/Magenta and Orange Colour. The rectangles are in black colour.   The OMR sheets are scanned through specific OMR Scanners which are provided by various companies like Scantron, DRS, Sekonic, etc. There are some image or OCR scanners which also scan these OMR Sheet with images of the sheet. But the main issue is how to capture data from image scanners? For that there are softwares like eXtractPro which converts OCR data to OMR but the time taken to convert data takes lot of time so it is advisable to scan the OMR Sheets with OMR scanners only. These OMR scanners are designed technically with header to read the responses filled in OMR sheets. The headers can be ink or pencil head with accuracy of ...