Suitable OMR Scanner Model for OMR Sheet Scanning

Now a days regular simple Image scanner are used to scan OMR Sheets and later the processing is done by OMR Software.

Addmen Provides OMR Software which does not need costly OMR Scanner Machine. For scanning of OMR answer sheets any flatbed or ADF (Automatic Document Feeder) image scanner can be used. OMR software needs no integration with the OMR image scanner.

Flatbed or ADF (Automatic Document Feeder) Image scanners are available everywhere and very reasonably priced. For high speed scanning use ADF Scanner. The effort in placing each sheet to the flatbed scanner is minimised as you can put 30-50 sheets in ADF scanner pocket.

Recommended	Highly	Highly	Aslo works	No (Obsolete)
Price Range (Rs.)	5000/- to 8000/-	40000/- to 90000/-	2000/- to 4000/-	> Rs. 2 Lacs
Scan Sheet/minute	10-15	40-80	2	80-100
Scanner Type	Regular ADF Image Scanner	Hi-Speed ADF Image Scanner	Flatbed Image Scanner	OMR M/c OMR Scanner
Manufacturers/ Approx. Price (Rs.) Download Brochure	HP3608 Epson	Fujitsu fi6130 (41000/-) Kodak i1200 (27000/-) HP 8750 (45000/-)	HP, Umax, Canon and many others	Others..

OMR Scanner Price in India

Regularly available ADF Scanner used for OMR Sheet Scanning are priced between Rs. 5000 to Rs. 8000/-. These ADF Scanners scan at an approx. speed of 10 pages per minute. These are good and durable machines. We have a track record of many such economic scanner models through our 500+ OMR Software users.

High speed ADF Image scanners or Document Scanners for OMR Sheet Scanning have a price range of Rs. 40,000/- to Rs. 90,000/-. Lower end scanners scan at a speed of approx. 40 pages per minute while high end scanners scan at a speed of around 80 pages per minute.

Addmen OMR Software does not need OMR Sheet Scanning Machines which are very very costly. See Comparision OMR MACHINE v/s OMR SOFTWARE based solution.

Image Scanner Model for OMR Sheet Scanning in India

Addmen OMR Software simply needs scanned images of OMR Sheets. Reading, Evaluation and Data processing of OMR Sheets is performed by OMR Answer Sheet Checker Software and OMR Form Reader Softwares. So any scanner model with good speed of scanning can be used for OMR Sheet Scanning.

Many models of ADF scanners are available in market which work well for this software. Few Models can be found at following links:

HP : http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/in/en/sm/WF06b/18972-18972-238444-3328086-3328086-3440986-3441019.html

Fujitsu : http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/peripherals/scanners/workgroup/fi-6130.html

Kodak : http://graphics.kodak.com/docimaging/IN/en/products/document_scanners/desktop/i1210_scanner/index.htm

Canon : http://www.usa.canon.com/opd/controller?act=OPDCategoryIndexAct&fcategoryid=2204

Epson : http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/jsp/SmallBusiness/Scanners.do?BV_UseBVCookie=yes

Panasonic : http://www.panasonic.com/Business/office/cat_scanners.asp

OMR Sheet Scanning Process

OMR Softwares use scanned images of OMR Sheets. OMR Sheet Scanning is usually done with following parameters:

OMR Sheet Scanning Mode: RGB Colour , Greyscale or Black & White (1-Bit) mode. Our OMR Software mostly uses B/w (1-Bit) mode as it is quickest to scan and file size is less.

OMR Sheet Image File Type: OMR Sheet images are saved in either TIFF or BMP Format. Both formats are available in any image scanner. Addmen OMR Software uses TIFF format which is still very small as compared to BMP format.

OMR Sheet scanned image size is around 40-50 KB in TIFF format which makes it easy to upload on internet for Online Result.