FormReturn 0.8.2 Beta

FormReturn 0.8.2 Beta offers you a full-featured and useful OMR software (Optical Mark Recognition software) which is designed for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Packed with easy-to-use features  it gives anyone, computer savvy or not, the ability to design printable forms, distribute, capture and automatically grade/analyze handwritten multiple choice response information instantly! All you need is the FormReturn Application (download here), a printer and a document scanner and you will be able to process hundreds of forms within minutes! Think of the time and money you will save.

Major Benefits:

1. Education - Use OMR software for creating and automatically mark multiple-choice assessments & attendance forms and reduce your burden.
2. RTO - Use OMR software for creating and automatically capturing data for the Quality Indicators (eg, learner questionnaire) that every Australian RTO (Registered Training Organization) is required to do. Save lots of time and money on administration and data-entry costs.
3. IT Departments - Use OMR software for creating printed forms for workflow rather than using a workflow system. This reduces the cost of implementing expensive workflow systems.
4. Conferences - Give each of your conference attendees a personalized multiple-choice survey and get instant feedback about what people in your audience think.
5. Office Administration - Use OMR software for creating automatically read timesheets and reduce administrative costs by saving time.
6. Logistics - Use OMR software for creating printed forms for warehouse manifests, pick slips, pack slips, automated dispatch order forms and remove the need for extra staff and data entry into warehouse computer terminals which is costly to maintain.
7. Manufacturing - Use OMR software to automatically process quality-control forms and remove the need for local computer terminals and staff training.
8. Marketing & Research - Using OMR software for creating and processing polls, surveys & questionnaires reduces cost in data-entry and increases the speed of obtaining statistical data needed to make business decisions.
9. Human Resources - Use OMR software for creating and automatically marking MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) multiple choice questions. This provides a way to screen hundreds of candidates without the need to manually calculate each person's personality type.
10. Healthcare - Use OMR software to gather statistical information automatically from patient questionnaires. Reduce the data-entry costs involved.
11. Government - Use OMR software to automatically process voting ballots and surveys. Get the data quickly when it counts and reduce the cost of data-entry.
12. Any organization that uses paper based data collection.

Major Features:

1. Main features:
   • An OMR form editor. This is used to design forms that are readable by FormReturn.
   • A built-in database. This is used to store all form structure information and captured results.
   • An OMR engine. For recognizing the returned scanned form images from forms created in formreturn,  analyzing and marking the handwritten responses.
2. FormReturn's most competitive features:
   • It is the only software based commercial OMR solution made for Mac OSX. It is also designed for Windows and Linux. You can share FormReturn files between all platforms.
   • It has a fully integrated OMR form designer, database and OMR form processing solution.  FormReturn Creates and recognizes its own vector based barcodes and OMR  checkbox mark areas.
   • Forms designed in the form editor have checkbox mark areas added, which you supply with values, fieldnames and the option of Mark Aggregation, which is giving a score to correct answers.
   • If you want to personalize forms with printed recipient's names taken from records in a database (such as first name and last name), you don't need to do a mail merge. FormReturn can do this very easily using its special system called Template Variable Replacement (TVR). Furthermore, you can use database data to create different types or custom barcodes of any size and placed anywhere on each form.
   • FormReturn uses automatic form ID generation (placed as form ID barcodes) to track and automatically process form pages. You can have more than one page per form, using a Form ID barcode on each page. Other OMR software solutions only allow one page for auto ID generation as they never factored in needing more than one page for a form.
   • FormReturn's price is competitive, compared to the majority of OMR software solutions available.
3. The technical features of FormReturn:
   • Java Swing Application - Runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
   • Barcode creator - Support for 1D barcodes (Code128, EAN13).
   • Barcode reader - Support for 1D barcodes (Code128).
   • SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) support - Can embed vector graphics for high quality printing.
   • Raster image support - Can embed PNG, JPG, GIF files.
   • Truetype font support - Supports truetype fonts.
   • PDF export - Exports forms and previews as PDF files.
   • Embedded, networkable database - JDBC compliant embedded database.
   • Image deskew - Form images can be deskewed automatically.
   • Form template editor - An integrated template editor that allows you to publish personalized forms.
   • Sub-forms (segments) - When publishing, multiple sub-forms can be included depending on the data provided.
   • Template variable replacement - Templates that contain variables such as eg. <> become John Smith, Joe Smith, Jane Doe etc when they are placed in a form and then published.

Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.5 or above.
• Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or G4 processor.
• 512 MB RAM.
• 10 GB free storage space.