How we build our comparisons

A teacher looking to grade paper MCQs with a scanner compares three or four tools before choosing. We would rather do that work in the open, sources included, than leave it to each vendor's sales page. Papeez appears in every comparison: we do not hide it, and that is exactly why every fact has to be checkable without taking our word for it.

Our comparisons cover tools that grade multiple-choice exams on paper: bubble sheets, optical mark recognition, scanning with a phone or a copier, free software such as Auto Multiple Choice. We include the ones found in French and English-speaking institutions, free or paid, installed or online.

Online assessment platforms (exams on a computer, proctoring, open-ended answers) are out of our scope. They are compared by Evalmee, the online exam platform from the same company: online exam platform comparison.

Every price, quota, feature or commitment attributed to a vendor comes from that vendor's own public page. The article links to that page and states the date we read it, for example "pricing page, checked on 14 August 2026". A price with no link and no date has no place in a Papeez comparison.

• Source: the vendor's page (pricing, documentation, terms), never a third-party review repeated without checking.
• Date: the reading date sits next to the fact. A vendor can change its prices the next day; the date says what we knew and when.
• Papeez: our own prices link to the Pricing page, which is authoritative. A figure quoted in an article can go stale; the Pricing page never does.
• Updates: the "Updated" date at the top of each article is the date the sources were last checked.

When a table cell reads "not stated by the vendor", it means the vendor's public pages, on the reading date, do not answer the question. It does not mean the feature is missing, nor that the price is high: it means it cannot be verified without talking to a sales team. We do not invent the answer, and we do not guess it either.

A price, a list of accepted file formats, a hosting region are facts: they are sourced. A judgement about ergonomics, ease of installation or support quality is an opinion: it is written in the first person ("in our view", "we find") and never presented as a measurement. When a judgement relies on a third-party user review, the article cites that review, its date, and says whether it is isolated.

You are the vendor of a tool we cite, or a reader, and a fact looks wrong or outdated? Write to us through the contact form with the article, the line concerned and the public page that establishes the right value.

• We re-read the source you point to, and ours.
• If the fact is wrong or outdated, the article is corrected, the reading date is refreshed and the "Updated" date changes.
• If the two sources contradict each other, the article cites both with their dates.
• We do not remove a comparison because someone dislikes it: we correct it if it is wrong.

An honest comparison starts by saying who the tool is not for. Papeez grades multiple-choice exams on paper, scanned after the test. It does nothing else.

• Online exams, on a computer or a tablet: not Papeez. Look at Evalmee, the online exam platform from the same company.
• Open-ended questions, essays, assisted handwriting grading: not Papeez. Evalmee covers that need online.
• Proctoring, lockdown browser, remote exams: not Papeez. Evalmee again.
• A fully free or offline setup, with LaTeX and a local install: Auto Multiple Choice remains the open-source reference, and we say so in the comparison we devote to it.