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Creating and editing forms

You can bring paper or electronic forms (distributed mainly

as PDF in an office environment) into OmniPage

Professional 16, recognize them and edit their content,

layout or both - in True Page view. Draw form zones over the

relevant areas of your image before recognition, or choose Form as

recognition layout, then use the two toolbars: Form Drawing and

Form Arrangement to make modifications and produce a fillable

form and save it in the following formats: PDF, RTF, or XSN

(Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 format). Static forms can be saved

to HTML. OmniPage Professional 16 uses the Logical Form

Recognition

technology to process forms.

Please note that OmniPage supports form creation and editing,

however the tools available here are not designed to fill in forms.

The Form Drawing Toolbar

This is a dockable toolbar, displayed in the Text Editor that allows

you to create a range of form elements using the following tools:

Selection:

Click this tool to be able to select, move, or resize

elements in your form.

Text:

Use the text tool to add fixed text descriptions on your

form such as titles, labels and headers.

Line:

The Line tool is mainly used in layout design: click it and

draw lines to separate distinct sections in your form.

Rectangle:

Click this tool to create rectangles in your form for

design purposes.

Graphic:

Use this tool to select areas of your form that are to be

treated as graphics.

Fill text:

Click this tool to create fillable text fields. These are

fields where you want people to enter text.