COMPUTER HARDWARE COMPONENTS FUNCTIONS
COMPUTER OUTPUT DEVICES
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Detailed explanation-1: -OMR stands for Optical Mark Recognition. This popular recognition technology is used for collecting data from “fill-in-the-bubble” forms such as educational tests, surveys, assessments, evaluations, and many other multiple choice forms. OMR has been widely used in education since the 1960s and is still popular today.
Detailed explanation-2: -OMR is now used as an input device for data entry. Two early forms of OMR are paper tape and punch cards which use actual holes punched into the medium instead of pencil filled circles on the medium. Paper tape was used as early as 1857 as an input device for telegraph.
Detailed explanation-3: -The full form of OMR is Optical Mark Recognition. OMR acknowledges human-created marks on a specially printed paper or journal used in experiments, surveys, etc. It is widely used where a huge number of candidates apply and to evaluate data with consistency and immediate effect.
Detailed explanation-4: -The most common use of OMR is in offices, academics and research departments where large numbers of hand-filled documents must be processed such as surveys, questionnaires, exams, reply cards and ballots. OMR can handle hundreds of thousands of physical documents per hour, and its accuracy is up to 99%.