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We at Concordia have had an Opscan 5 from NCS for a little more than a year
now and are very satisfied with it.  The NCS phone support is good, but I
can't speak for their hardware servicing because we haven't had to call them
in for any maintenance yet.  We use it excussively for exam grading.  We use
scantools to read in the data then load it up to a Vax for processing.  We
bought Mentor Score and Mentor Grade with the scanner planning to do all the
processing on the PC too.  However, we found these packages quite useless and
lacking some pretty obvious features, like sorting records by name or ID.  I
don't remember much about the Mentor programs except that I was convinced I
would never be able to use it and satisfy the Faculty at the same time.
Maybe someone else is using it, If so maybe they can tell me how they are using
it.
I will end with this question:  I have heard a lot about NCS and Scantron, but
are there any other players in this game.  I have heard of a company in
Montreal called Mid-City Press who distribute a Japanese brand (I think) of
Optical Mark Reader (OMR for our inquiring friend).  I don't know the
manufacturer's name, only a model number - MC-510.  Has anyone ever heard of
Mid-City Press or another OMR manufacturer?

Craig Buchanan
Concordia University
craig@vax2.concordia.ca