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Test a form. Bring the one slowing your lab down the most.

FormSense comes from the team whose software runs in production for clients including UW Veterinary Care, Maine DOT, and NIEHS. Your first step is a thirty-minute session with an expert and your filled forms.

FormSense reads the printed and handwritten fields on a filled form and turns them into a record your team checks and approves before anything reaches your LIMS. Pick the form that slows your laboratory down the most and bring your filled examples, with patient and client details removed or made up. In thirty minutes with an expert, we run them through FormSense together and review every field it reads. FormSense is available now.

Talk with an expert How to bring it →

In a thirty-minute session with an expert, you watch FormSense extract your forms. Bring PDFs or scans of the forms you want to see.

01The form

Bring the forms that slow you down.

Want to see your pages extracted live? Bring the forms you think will be the most difficult to read, and we will run them through FormSense with you. Then you can judge for yourself how much typing it would take off your team.

  • A submission sheetthe form your clients send with the samples
  • An accession worksheetthe sheet the front desk or the bench fills in as samples are logged
  • A result loga bench log or plate sheet where results are written down before anyone types them

Filled examples show the most. Bring a few messy ones, with crossed-out values, ditto marks, and dates written over.

A handwritten accession worksheet, read field by field A paper accession worksheet, page 1 of 1, with four handwritten fields. Owner, Example Farm. Species, Bovine, serum. Test requested, BVD PCR. Collected, a date that is hard to read, 8 slash 3 something slash 26. A scan line sweeps down the page and a dot lights at the margin of each field as it is read. The last field, the unclear date, is held for a person instead of read. When reduced motion is preferred the page is shown already read. All values are made up. ACCESSION WORKSHEET PAGE 1 OF 1 OWNER Example Farm SPECIES Bovine, serum TEST REQ. BVD PCR COLLECTED 8/3?/26 A handwritten accession worksheet, read field by field A paper accession worksheet, page 1 of 1, with four handwritten fields. Owner, Example Farm. Species, Bovine, serum. Test requested, BVD PCR. Collected, a date that is hard to read, 8 slash 3 something slash 26. A scan line sweeps down the page and a dot lights at the margin of each field as it is read. The last field, the unclear date, is held for a person instead of read. When reduced motion is preferred the page is shown already read. All values are made up. ACCESSION WORKSHEET PAGE 1 OF 1 OWNER Example Farm SPECIES Bovine, serum TEST REQ. BVD PCR COLLECTED 8/3?/26
Fig. 1 A handwritten accession worksheet, with made-up values, as FormSense reads it and holds the unclear date for a person to check.

02How to bring it

Three steps, with no upload.

1

Pick the forms

Choose the ones that slow your laboratory down the most, in the hand they often arrive in.

2

Book a session

Book thirty minutes with an expert, on your calendar, and bring PDFs or scans of filled examples.

3

Review it together

We run your pages through FormSense live and go through what it read with you, field by field.

Talk with an expert Other ways →

If you would rather send them ahead

Email your examplesUse the subject “Test a form”. We will set FormSense up for your form before we meet.

Before you send or bring a page, remove or make up any patient, owner, or client details.

03What you will see

What you will see in the session.

FormSense reads each page and puts it in front of a reviewer. For every field you see what was read, the final value, a confidence score, how the value was derived, and any change a person made. Fields with low confidence are flagged for a person to check. Nothing reaches your LIMS until someone approves it.

The FormSense Review Workbench inside a model-driven app: a worksheet page record with its header fields, an Approve Page control, and three panes side by side. They show the scanned page, a row grid with one row per worksheet line, and a source-evidence pane. Every visible value is synthetic.
Fig. 2 The Review Workbench. The scanned page, the rows read from it and the source of each value sit side by side before anything is saved. Every value shown is made up.

Approved pages become records in your LIMS through an adapter configured for that system. Export to PDF or spreadsheet is also available. If you need the data somewhere else as well, ask us.

04After the session

Putting it to work.

If FormSense reads your forms well, you can start using it. Talk with an expert. The product is on the FormSense page.

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