Scantron unravelled Available to Purchase

A great deal of interest has been aroused in the retail trade over the last few months by reports of the development of a new OCR omnidirectional scanning system. Called Scantron, the system has been developed by Herr Hans Scholze, with research being carried out by the Battelle Institute in Frankfurt. EPOS 80 scored a coup at their Congress in June in London by staging a presentation delivered (in German and translated) by Herr Scholze himself. In the event the presentation was somewhat inconclusive. Gil Jones explains why and attempts to put Scantron in its proper perspective.