2.0

International Settings
OmniForm Procedures 5-25
• Click
Preferences...
to change the language for your new form.
You cannot change the
New Form
language selection if
Add Page(s)
to Current Form
is checked because a language is already
associated with the current form. A form can have only one
selected language.
• If you select
Add Page(s) to Current Form
, the
Language
display
changes to reflect the
Current Form
language if it is different.
The Object Definition Dialog Box Options
The
Current Form
language selection affects available formatting options
for fillable objects defined as type
Number, Date,
or
Currency
in the Object
Definition dialog box. For example, the long-date format for English
(United States) is MMMM dd, yyyy. The long-date format for German
(Standard) is d.MMMM yyyy.
The
Allow Multiple Languages
Option
How it Works
You can select
Allow Multiple Languages
in the Scan dialog box for
multiple-language forms. OmniForm will then recognize all characters
in all languages it supports. The setting does not affect the language(s)
selected for your form in the Preferences dialog box and vice versa.
When you select
Allow Multiple Languages,
OmniForm turns off
dictionaries during optical character recognition (OCR) so that
all
recognizable characters are allowed. If dictionaries were on, special
characters such as umlauts might be discarded or questionable words in
one language could be mistaken for words in another language.
Do not select
Allow Multiple Languages
for a single-language form. OCR
may not be as efficient with dictionaries turned off.
Selecting the
New Forms
Language
Determine which language composes the majority of your form and
select that as the
New Form
s language before scanning. To do so, click
Preferences...
in the Scan Form dialog box.
Remember that the selected language affects sort order and how dates,
numbers, and currency are formatted in Fill View. See “Multiple
Languages” on page 7-10 for information on spell-checking a form with
multiple languages.