Does abi have the necessary hooks to be able to *scan* documents into it? And/or can abi use an arbitrary image file, perhaps one scanned in or the rasterized pdf, as the background/"paper" on which it does its thing of putting the "ink"? That way one would have the combination of word-processor-style features with other parts of the document those word-processing ways are not allowed to alter.
Not all sure about abiword, but the GIMP has this feature and that source code is open. I don't why I'm jumping in on this as neither of these topics (pdf form fill or document "acquire") is currently of interest to me or, I imagine, more than a very few AbiWord users.
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