If students in your class are taking a standardized test using a form with rectangles that they fill in with a pencil, what technology will be used to grade the test?(A) OCR(B) OMR(C) BCR(D) MICR
OMR technology is used in grading multiple choice question papers.
As the name itself suggests this technology uses the optical technology to grade the mark sheets.
The filled scoring sheets are scanned using a image scanner to score the marks gained.
This technology has some similarities with OCR but here the case provided uses the OMR technology.So, option (B) is correct answer.
Option (A) OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition which is used in distinguishing the printed text and hand written text in digital documents.So, option (A) is wrong option.
Option (C) BCR stands for Bar Code Scanner is a technology used in scanning a bar code and it converts them into digital data.So, option (C) is wrong option.
Option (D) MICR stands for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition technology used in banking technology in cheques and documents.So, option (D) is wrong option.
