PaperSurvey supports booklet-style surveys that allow you to create compact, professional questionnaires by folding pages in half. Booklets are easier for respondents to handle and make efficient use of paper, giving your surveys a polished, professional look.
What Are Booklet Surveys?
Booklet surveys transform standard pages into folded questionnaires. When folded, each page creates two surfaces for questions, making efficient use of paper while providing a more professional appearance.
Printing Options and Requirements
You have two paper size options for booklet surveys.
A4 Paper (Most Common)
- Survey is automatically scaled down to A5 format when printed
- Recognition software automatically upscales during processing
- Works with any standard A4 scanner
A3 Paper
- Creates full-size A4 pages when folded
- Important: Requires access to an A3 scanner, or you will need to cut pages in half before scanning
Creating Your Booklet Survey
Creating a booklet survey is straightforward:
- Design your survey normally in PaperSurvey
- Use page breaks to separate content for each booklet page
- Download the PDF file
- In your printer settings, set "Pages per sheet" to 2
- Print and fold each page in half
For multi-page booklets, staple pages together for distribution but remember to remove staples before scanning.
Scanning and Uploading Booklet Surveys
Since PaperSurvey processes one page at a time, booklet pages need to be split before recognition. You have several options.
Automatic Splitting (Recommended)
Turn on "Booklet scanning" mode in Settings › Personal and click Update, to split every PDF you upload, for all surveys
Add [a5] to filename to only split specific files (example: survey_responses_[a5].pdf)
"Booklet scanning" mode cannot be used while your team prints in landscape, because cutting a landscape page down the middle would slice the survey in two.
Manual Splitting
- Cut pages physically with scissors before scanning
- Split pages digitally using PDF editing software
Automatic splitting only works with PDF files. Image files (JPG, PNG) must be split manually.