Case Study: NIIT (National Institute of Information Technology) achieves processing of 150,000 scholarship applications in 5 days with ABBYY FormReader

ABBYY Enables India’s Top IT Training Institute, NIIT, to Reach Scholarship Award Decisions in a Matter of Days

NIIT, a leading IT education and training institute in India, runs the Bhavishya Jyoti scholarship program and faced a 2005 challenge of processing 150,000 hand-filled scholarship applications for 30,000 awards. Manual data entry would have required about two months with 30 operators (~29,160 man-hours) and posed accuracy and confidentiality risks, yet results needed to be declared within a week.

NETSPIDER INDIA deployed ABBYY FormReader with high‑speed Canon scanners and custom templates to automate capture, verification and export; the team processed all 150,000 forms in five days (with only two operators for verification), achieved near‑100% accuracy through ABBYY’s verification interface, met NIIT’s deadline, and saved substantial time and labor while enabling timely scholarship decisions.

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Dixit

Project Coordinator