[geeks] I just saw...

[Phil Stracchino]

wa2egp at att.net wrote:
> Sounds good but you forgot one small problem which I have seen in my
> job as a teacher....ScanTron is not error proof.  I've seen them
> mis-scan numerous times.  Even a correctly marked part with no
> erasures or other marks was recorded as wrong.

Then the scanning code was bad.  I wrote some mark-sense scanning code
once that was designed for use with a hand scanner, and it was
self-aligning, tolerated skews, misalignments, even mid-scan skews ... I
couldn't MAKE it fail.

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