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Read handwriting and get AI help

Turn long handwritten answers into readable text, and get optional AI suggestions for marks. The examiner always decides.

  • Handwriting reading (OCR) for long answers
  • AI suggests marks and gives a short reason
  • Scripts that need a closer look are flagged
  • Examiner can accept, change, or reject every suggestion
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Scanned handwritten answer with OCR text and an AI mark suggestion the examiner can accept, change, or reject

Read long handwritten answers faster

Essay-style papers are slow to read. OCR turns handwriting into text you can scan on screen next to the original page.

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Bulk text recognition

Run handwriting recognition across many pages in batch jobs—especially useful when thousands of long answers arrive at once.

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Text beside the scan

Review the typed text alongside the image when you need to check a word or phrase the reader misread.

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Optional—not required

Turn OCR on when it helps your exam type. Short-answer papers can skip it; essay exams benefit most.

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Works with on-screen marking

OCR supports the same My Marking screen examiners already use. No separate tool to learn.

AI suggestions—with the examiner in charge

AI can suggest a mark and flag scripts that need a second look. It never finalizes results on its own.

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Suggested mark and reason

See a proposed mark and a short explanation. Use it to speed up a first read, not to replace judgment.

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Accept, change, or reject

Every suggestion needs a human decision. The system does not publish AI marks without an examiner confirming them.

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Flagged scripts for leads

Scripts that look unusual are flagged. Admins get reports and batch lists to review before or while assigning work.

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Batch review for operations

Run batch jobs to process OCR and AI flags at scale, then route only the exceptions to senior staff.

More Next OSM features

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Exam setup

Create each exam, choose how marks are given, import your candidate list, and decide when results can be published. Link an exam to a test you already run in Next Learner LMS.

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Bundles & logistics

Set up exam centers, register sealed packets, print barcodes, and know what has been sent, received, and stored—before scanning starts.

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Scan & upload

After Next Scanning exports packages ready for OSM upload, complete digital intake here—then OSM QC, QC approval, and evaluation workflows.

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Assignment & pipelines

Show clear queues, assign answer scripts by hand, build marker teams and step-by-step marking plans, and support double marking when your policy requires it.

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Marking on screen

Examiners read scanned handwritten answer sheets on screen, write notes on the page, enter marks per question or one total, save and continue later, and send a script back to quality check if needed.

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Results & reports

Dashboards show progress and bottlenecks; export results to Excel or CSV; publish marks to students on the portal or a simple lookup when you enable that option.

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Marker payments

Set pay rates per marker, preview totals before you pay, approve a payment batch, and export files for finance—based on scripts actually marked in the system.

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Security & audit

Each customer's data is kept separate. People only see what their role allows, and an audit log shows who did what and when, including any change made in a recheck.

See OCR & AI help in a live demo

We will show this step for your exam office—however many centers, scripts, and markers you run.

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