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Proofing and Editing Creating and Editing Forms 57
Editing Form object properties
To edit a form object directly select it then right-click the given element to display its shortcut
menu. You can edit the appearance or the properties of any form element here. Use the
following commands:
Form Object Appearance - use the tabs Borders, Shading and Shadow to design the look of
your form elements in a similar way as you would do in a text-editing application.
Form Object Properties - this
command gives you access to the element properties such as
size, position, name. Properties dynamically vary depending on what type of element you
select.
Extracting Form Data
Form data extraction (FDE) is a workflow step. Data is extracted from elements
such as fillable fields, check boxes, and option buttons. FDE is a simplified
implementation of the full Logical Form Recognition technology
.
To create a workflow that contains form data extraction:
• Define the processing input and its settings. Input types include: image PDF, PDF
form, image files and forms scanned from paper.
• Choose Extract Form Data in place of recognition, and specify its settings. This
includes a language choice. The option Detect single language automatically can be
useful for unattended processing of forms when the language used to fill each of the
forms cannot be determined beforehand. See “Languages” on page 47.
• Set an active PDF form as template. It can be single or multi-page, filled or unfilled.
The program determines the location and type of the form fields based on this form
template.
• Finish the workflow with a saving step.
OmniPage extracts data from incoming forms, using the specified template. Export is to a
co
mma-separated value text file (.csv) ready to be loaded into a spreadsheet.
Once you select Form Data Extraction in a workflow, only saving steps will follow.