Patent ID: 8358964

Claim:
A system for collection of responses from users of scannable forms, comprising: a scannable form comprising: (i) a position-coding pattern comprising a plurality of unique patterns, (ii) at least two response areas for receipt of information from a user of the form, and (iii) two or more location marks indicating a referenceable physical location on the scannable form, wherein the response areas are positioned in a specified relation to the location marks; a pen-camera device for optically detecting the position-coding pattern and marking the scannable form with response marks in at least one of the response areas, wherein the pen-camera device is configured to have a location of the pen-camera device on the scannable form identified with the position-coding pattern; a scanner configured to optically detect the location marks and the response marks; and a form definition file that associates scanned content from the scanner with location information from the pen-camera device, the form definition file comprising: (i) a first form layout for referencing the scanned content and position information for the at least two response areas, the first form layout being configured to be referenced with the scanner; and (ii) a second form layout for the position-coding pattern for identifying locations of the pen-camera device on the scannable form when marking the scannable form, wherein the first form layout and the second form layout of the form definition file are configured to provide information to enable a comparison of the scanned content and the position information for the at least two response areas with a position-coding pattern for the identified locations of the pen-camera device on the scannable form.