Optical mark reader

• Main Author: Yek, Yin Peng
• Format: Final Year Project Report
• Language: English
• Published: University Malaysia Sarawak, UNIMAS. 2006
• Subjects: T Technology (General); TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1655/8/YECK%20YIN%20PING.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1655/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Nowadays, objective type examinations are conducted for entry into many courses or for jobs, either in schools, universities or government sectors. The candidates sit through these examination in large number. Therefore, optical Mark Reader (OMR) was developed to assist for the evaluation of the OMR papers. The OMR is an application that used to detect predefined mark and generates accurate results for each of the OMR papers. This application is not necessary rely on OMR machine, but it can communicate with any scanners. However, this application has alternative to load the images either from local disk or retrieve images from scanner. This application able to process more than one images simultaneously. Then the results that generated are saved in the database or export to Microsoft Excel for printing purposes. This application is exclusively functionalities, which it has ability to perform mark recognition, browses images from local disk, communicates direct with scanner, saves the records into database, and finds the relevant examinees' information and results. OMR is developed to contribute to lecturers in Unimas on the evaluation of objective papers.