RealTime Character Recognition utilizing NestorReader 1.6

RealTime Character Recognition utilizing NestorReader is a fast, accurate character recognition solution from Pearson Assessments, purpose-built for high-volume assessment and data-capture workflows. Leveraging the NestorReader engine, it interprets both machine-printed and neatly handwritten characters as responses stream in, enabling immediate validation, quicker scoring, and fewer manual corrections.

Key capabilities

• Real-time OCR/ICR: Recognizes printed text and short handwritten entries with confidence scoring and bounding boxes for easy on-screen verification.
• Forms-aware processing: Supports common assessment elements such as numeric fields, short answers, checkboxes, and bubbles (OMR).
• Validation rules: Flags low-confidence or out-of-range values in the moment, reducing downstream rework.
• Flexible ingestion: Works with compatible document scanners and cameras; handles both streaming and batch workflows.
• Seamless integration: Exposes results via APIs and standard formats (for example, JSON/CSV) for scoring, analytics, and reporting systems.
• Multilingual support: Recognizes multiple languages available through NestorReader language packs.
• Review and audit: Provides an operator review queue for ambiguous characters and maintains an audit trail of edits.

Benefits

• Speeds turnaround from capture to score by delivering results as pages are read.
• Improves accuracy through confidence-based review and built-in validation.
• Reduces manual data entry costs across testing, surveys, and forms processing.
• Fits diverse IT environments with deployment and integration options to match existing workflows.

Designed for education and certification programs, research teams, and operations groups that require dependable, real-time character recognition at scale, this solution pairs Pearson’s assessment expertise with the robustness of NestorReader to deliver faster, more reliable data capture.

RealTime Character Recognition utilizing NestorReader is developed by Pearson Assessments. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.6.