The process of gathering data with an optical scanner by measuring the reflectivity of light at predetermined positions on a surface. OMR differs from optical character recognition (OCR), which requires a recognition engine in order to make sense of written characters. See also OCR.
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(Optical Mark Reader) A scanner that reads marks on specific areas of the page. See mark sensing.
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