With 12 different question types to choose from and a variety of text formatting settings, you have the flexibility to customize your survey to fit your needs
And, if you want to see what your survey will look like before you print it, simply click on our sample templates for inspiration

2. Print paper forms

Once you're happy with your survey design, it's time to print out your copies

If your survey spans multiple pages, each page will be marked with a unique identifier
This not only simplifies the scanning and recognition process, but it also helps prevent duplicate uploads

3. Begin data collection

Now it's time to distribute your forms and gather feedback from your respondents

4. Scan & upload

Once you've collected the completed forms, it's time to scan the pages
Simply upload the scanned files to PaperSurvey
io and let our AI recognition technologies do the rest
You don't need to worry about the page order or rotation, as it will be detected automatically

Once your data has been captured, you can analyze the results online or export the data file in CSV, Excel, or SPSS format for further analysis

Optical mark recognition (OMR)

With PaperSurvey
io, you can trust that checkmarks will be accurately recognized from the scanned surveys, with a 99
99% accuracy rate

Intelligent character recognition (ICR)

Our AI technology can also recognize characters written inside square boxes, making it great for short text, digits, or dates

And, if you have open response questions, our state-of-the-art AI handwriting recognition technology will automatically recognize any handwritten text

Unique identifiers for multi-page surveys

To simplify the form scanning and processing and eliminate duplicates, each page of a multi-page survey can be uniquely marked

With our merge tool or the ability to customize your survey using Microsoft Word mail merge, you can dynamically insert information and pre-fill forms

Automatically sync your survey data to your Google Sheets document for quick analysis or connection to Business Intelligence (BI) software

Integrate with other applications to automate your workflow with recognition triggers and upload actions

Integrate with your own database or application by automatically syncing the data as new data is collected

What our users say

"It worked out of the box
No training required, no clumsy configurations, and almost zero trial and error
Brilliant
Over-the-top customer service and expediency to design improvements based on feedback
It's an easy-to-use product that fills a void in the market and takes the sometimes essential paper-based survey work into the 21st century! While there may be some areas that can still be enhanced, by experience with customer service has blown me away

"
— Virgil HP, Research and Evaluation Manager and Advisor
"Very easy to setup, intuitive UI for creating a questionnaire (similar to Google forms) - plenty of options for question types - form layout is simple and effective, spaced nicely no over crowding - printing versions, can be used to print a version for on location and allocate it accordingly once scanned - dropbox feature works seamlessly, takes a minute to setup - verification is quick and suprisingly pretty accurate ocr - integration with Google sheets is the icing on the cake, perfect for connecting to business intelligence software
"
— Adrian K, CEO

Couldn't say better things

"My overall experience was fantastic
I honestly have nothing bad to say
The developer went above and beyond to meet my needs, the product worked exactly as advertised, and it saved hours upon hours of time
I will absolutely be recommending PaperSurvey to my colleages and it will be my go-to for all future research work that I conduct
"
— Rebecca W, Research Scientist

Perfect tool for a small organization