>Hi Guys,
>I am writing software to read surveys and get the data into VFP. The survey forms are partly hand written and have tick boxes. At the moment it is done by an operator. Can this be done electronically by scanning.
> Has anyone written this sort of application or used activex controls to read paper forms. Can some one please guide me in the right direction.
>
>TIA
>Regards,
>Fred

Hi,

In our unit we use TELEform to read surveys. TELEform creates file in any format you want (dbf, mdb, etc.) and loads all the data in it. Our application just processes this file (mdb in our case) and uploads it in our system with all data validation.
TELEform is quite expensive and license based, but on long run it does good job. I should mention, that it relatively slow (takes 1 sec per page to OCR.)

HTH,