Bangladesh: ABBYY's Artificial Intelligence Software Reveals Its Advantage over OMR Hardware
Moscow, Russia (March 2, 2009) – ABBYY, the leading provider of recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies, today announced that Devnet Limited, the ABBYY’s partner in Bangladesh, has successfully launched its project in Bangladesh College of Leather Technology (BCLT) on processing entrance examination forms.
This is the first time that the institution’s selection committee in Bangladesh declines to use Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) hardware while processing the entrance exam answer sheets. This time it was agreed to process the documents by using ABBYY FormReader 6.5 Enterprise Edition. For this project, Devnet chose ABBYY software which, in addition to OMR functionality, is capable to perform Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) – recognition of handprinted characters filled in by hand. It had required only 7 hours to process all the 2300 exam forms with personal data filled in by the candidates, and only one operator. Such high performance was reached aslo thanks to the students who accurately filled the forms, according to special instructions. Devnet printed illustrated materials that explained students how to write characters in the answer sheets properly and posted them on the walls of auditoriums. Devnet also developed a special easy-to-use interface to help teachers calculate the percentage of correct answers and estimate the examination results immediately, after the forms are processed by ABBYY FormReader. This helps to maintain the confidentiality of data when processing the exam forms, as the correct answers are known only to the teachers and are not passed on to the processing centre.
«This project in Bangladesh College of Leather Technology is of high importance for us. It’s not only because the fact that we managed to save a lot of time and human resources while processing answer sheets with the help of ABBYY FormReader. What is more important is that we have proved the benefits of using ICR technology. People here should see that it really works! I foresee a great future for ICR in our country», said Shabbir Mahbub, Director & CTO, Devnet Limited.
About Devnet Limited
Devnet was founded by a group of IT executives in 1997 and incorporated in 2001, with registered capital of five million BDT, with a focus on creating quality information technology products and services. Within two years of operation, in 1999 Devnet launched country's first imaging and indexing solution which has evolved to full scale electronic document management solution over the years. In 2005 Devnet introduces its first document process service bureau with capacity of 10,000 documents per day and by 2008 the service bureau is processing 80,000 per day.
As a leading software and service provider Devnet is working with reputed organizations such as ICDDR, BRAC, Hayes and Haier, British American Tobacco, Banglalink (An Orascom Telecom Company), State Bank of India, HSBC, Bangladesh Army, Government of Bangladesh, Citi Bank NA, Standard Chartered Bank, Siliconsoft etc. For more information about Devnet, visit http://www.devnetlimited.com/.
About Bangladesh College of Leather Technology
Bangladesh College of Leather Technology (BCLT) is the only educational institution of this kind in the country regarding the human resource development in the field of Leather, Footwear and Leather Products Technology. Now it is one of the leading Technological College in the country. For its newly acquired and adapted modern technology in concerned fields, numbers of students are getting attracted for studying over here. Along with modern technical facilities, students are becoming more familiar with Bangladesh College of Leather Technology because of increased demands in national and international job markets. BCLT is committed to produce skilled technologists to compete the world job market. For more information about BCLT, please visit the company’s website at http://www.bclt.com.bd/.
