Printable paper surveys with scanning
Transform paper surveys into digital data with modern AI recognition technologies.
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Turn Weeks of Manual Work to Minutes
Say goodbye to the arduous, time-consuming manual data entry and hello to efficient survey management. With PaperSurvey.io, you'll witness a remarkable shift as days of manual work are condensed into mere minutes, empowering you to focus on what truly matters – gaining insights and making informed decisions.
Revolutionize Your Paper Survey Workflow
Discover how PaperSurvey.io streamlines the survey process
1. Create a paper survey
Start by designing your survey with our easy-to-use online survey creator.
With 12 different question types to choose from and a variety of text formatting settings, you have the flexibility to customize your survey to fit your needs.
2. Print paper forms
Once you're happy with your survey design, it's time to print out your copies.
If your survey spans multiple pages, each page will be marked with a unique identifier. This not only simplifies the scanning and recognition process, but it also helps prevent duplicate uploads.
3. Begin data collection
Now it's time to distribute your forms and gather feedback from your respondents.
4. Scan & upload
Once you've collected the completed forms, it's time to scan the pages. Simply upload the scanned files to PaperSurvey.io and let our AI recognition technologies do the rest. You don't need to worry about the page order or rotation, as it will be detected automatically.
5. Analyze results
Once your data has been captured, you can analyze the results online or export the data file in CSV, Excel, or SPSS format for further analysis.
Unlock Powerful Features
Explore the capabilities of PaperSurvey.io
Optical mark recognition (OMR)
With PaperSurvey.io, you can trust that checkmarks will be accurately recognized from the scanned surveys, with a 99.99% accuracy rate
Intelligent character recognition (ICR)
Our AI technology can also recognize characters written inside square boxes, making it great for short text, digits, or dates.
Handwriting recognition (HWR)
And, if you have open response questions, our state-of-the-art AI handwriting recognition technology will automatically recognize any handwritten text.
Unique identifiers for multi-page surveys
To simplify the form scanning and processing and eliminate duplicates, each page of a multi-page survey can be uniquely marked.
Your Branding
Upload your branding logo, customize the colors and change font to make the survey look professional and match your branding style.
Multilingual surveys
Select additional languages for your paper survey. Surveys will be printed in multiple languages, and all responses will be consolidated into a single dataset for analysis.
Dynamic forms
With our data merge tool you can dynamically insert information and pre-fill forms before printing.
Web surveys
Collect responses using the web survey forms as a supplementary collection source to the paper surveys.
Easy Document Uploads
Upload all your scanned paper forms using drag-and-drop upload, auto-upload from cloud storage or send them over the email.
Manual Verification
Invite multiple people to help verify responses that the machine failed to read, when too many options were selected or when the print/scan quality is low.
Simple Analytics
View the basic analytics in charts, word clouds, and tables. You can always export the data for further analysis in SPSS, Excel and CSV formats.
API & Webhooks
Integrate with your own database or application by automatically syncing the data as new data is collected.
What our users say
Discover why users love PaperSurvey.io
Revolutionary
"It worked out of the box. No training required, no clumsy configurations, and almost zero trial and error. Brilliant. Over-the-top customer service and expediency to design improvements based on feedback. It's an easy-to-use product that fills a void in the market and takes the sometimes essential paper-based survey work into the 21st century! While there may be some areas that can still be enhanced, by experience with customer service has blown me away..."
— Kate S, Chief Program Officer
So useful for our purposes!
"We are an international NGO that conducts large-scale research and evaluations with participants in our programs. These participants generally do not have access to computers, smartphones, or internet, making data gathering and entry a very onerous process. We used to do paper-based surveys and then manual entry of each survey. This gets extremely time-consuming and pricey when we have thousands, and sometimes tens of thousands, of participants and multiple time points..."
— Virgil HP, Research and Evaluation Manager and Advisor
Couldn't say better things
"My overall experience was fantastic. I honestly have nothing bad to say. The developer went above and beyond to meet my needs, the product worked exactly as advertised, and it saved hours upon hours of time. I will absolutely be recommending PaperSurvey to my colleages and it will be my go-to for all future research work that I conduct."
— Rebecca W, Research Scientist
Simple & Effective
"Very easy to setup, intuitive UI for creating a questionnaire (similar to Google forms) - plenty of options for question types - form layout is simple and effective, spaced nicely no over crowding - printing versions, can be used to print a version for on location and allocate it accordingly once scanned - dropbox feature works seamlessly, takes a minute to setup - verification is quick and suprisingly pretty accurate ocr - integration with Google sheets is the icing on the cake, perfect for connecting to business intelligence software."
— Adrian K, CEO
Perfect tool for a small organization
"This one tool designs, previews,prepares print survey for mailmerge, scans paper responses including character recognition and handwrtten recognition, and supports online reporting. As a former survey manager for a government agency, I was pleasantly surprised to find a tool with such a robust set of capabilities. Most important, the software developer listens and accommodates most requests."
— Roberts M, Survey Manager
Very good tool to collect data
"I use it to collect data for research, both in paper and online. Very good technical support. It was very easy to design the survey."
— Sandra T, Professor
Amazing Product, Excellent Customer Service!
"I urgently had to find a software to use for paper feedback that could be then be uploaded to extract the responses in an efficient and smart way. Im so glad that I found PaperSurvey. I loved designing the survey as it really made me think about a simple user experience, which PaperSurvey so seamlessly has the capability to do so."
— Shreya V, Design Engineer
Full featured service
"The range of features is great. Ability to email responses to be automatically read is great. We keep finding new ways in which the software fits our needs."
— Jay B, Application Developer
The silver bullet for OMR software surveys
"We are using PaperSurvey to survey the people we serve. Papersurvey lets us survey as many people as we like and then process the data very quickly so we can start digging in!"
— Phil T, Sr. Manager of Research and Program Evaluation
Frequently asked questions
Have questions? We have answers
- How accurate is the software?
Our software recognizes 99.99% of the checkboxes correctly. Handwritten text is recognized very accurately in multiple languages but it may be less accurate in low-quality scans. We invite you to try it out by yourself by signing up for a free trial today.
- Is my data secure?We take your data security seriously. Your data is encrypted both in transit and at rest. This means that any data transferred between your device and our servers is securely encoded, making it extremely difficult for unauthorized parties to intercept or access your information. We host your data on servers that meet the rigorous security standards of ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certifications. These certifications confirm that our servers have undergone thorough security audits and adhere to industry best practices. . Our solution is cloud-based, which allows us to leverage the latest advancements in cloud security. Our cloud infrastructure is continually monitored and updated to protect your data from evolving threats.
For more detailed information on our security measures and data handling practices, we encourage you to review our security statement and privacy policy. These documents provide an in-depth look at how we safeguard your data. - What printers and scanners are compatible?
You may use any type of economy or business scanner to print and scan the printed forms. We recommend that the printer at least have the document feeder function to make the scanning process fast.
- What paper size do you support?
You may print your surveys in A3, A4, A5, Legal, Letter size papers. You may change the paper size in the account settings.
- What is optical mark recognition (OCR)?
Optical mark recognition (OMR) is a process to identify and extract data from paper forms by analyzing marked fields such as checkboxes or 'bubble' fields. OMR is used in all close-ended questions to detect whether participant responded or not.
- Do you support optical character recognition (OCR)?
OCR only works with the machine-printed text and it can't accurately read handwriting. For reading the handwriting we use handwriting text recognition (HTR). If you need, you may choose to recognize the text using OCR engine (e.g. if you plan to insert some text before printing).
- Do you support intelligent character recognition (ICR)?
We support ICR for both digits and characters. There is no limit how many ICR fields you can have and ICR does not count towards 'Handwritten text recognition' field limit.
- Can I export the data?
Yes, you can export your data in CSV, Excel, Google Sheets, SPSS, PDF formats in seconds.
- Do I need to install or maintain any software?
The service is cloud-based and you do not need to install anything. All software updates and new features are released to all of the customers.
- I need a custom feature. Can you add it?
Feel free to reach out to us with your requirements. We will likely be able to add this feature for you if we find it helpful. If you really need the feature but we do not consider it as helpful to all customers, we could still get it implemented for additional cost.
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