Patent ID: 8280300

Claim:
A computerized method for automatically analyzing a filled-in questionnaire, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a questionnaire having plural answer locations; (b) scanning with a device having a processing unit at least two copies of the questionnaire with the plural answer locations filled-in differently and complementarily in a predetermined way to define a set of answer locations, and to produce a first scan of the defined set of answer locations and a second scan of the defined set of answer locations; (c) automatically determining with the device having the processing unit the answer locations by comparing the first scan and the second scan; (d) providing another copy of the questionnaire having certain answers filled-in; (e) scanning with the device having the processing unit the provided another copy of the questionnaire having certain answers filled-in as a third scan; and (f) automatically judging with the device having the processing unit the certain answers at the determined answer locations.