It is common place for authorities to provide parents with the opportunity to express a preference for the primary or secondary school that they wish their children to join. Preference forms are sent to parents so that they can write down the names of the schools that they would like their children to attend. Normally they can write down the names of up to three schools in order of preference. These forms are then returned to the Admissions Department of the local authority for processing.
The Admissions Authority has a duty to operate its published admissions procedures fairly and equally for all applicants. Using an automated software process ensures that all applications are processed in a correct and timely manner.
The solution developed by ImageFast automates the collation and interpretation of preference forms that are completed by parents. Images of the forms are captured by scanning and these electronic forms pass through a powerful recognition engine that is able to extract data from the form. This data is then exported to a standard format such as Excel, MS Access or CSV. It can also be written directly to any ODBC compliant database.
To find out more about the schools admissions solution and how ImageFast can help please contact us or
email sales@imagefast.co.uk.