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Nice thoughts, but speaking from experience, there is nothing better than the human interface. All of these packages require you to go back and post edit the forms, in many cases taking more time then if you would have manually used adobe's form tool and done them yourself. This is very similar to the OCR hassles that exist in text document scanning and then the post editing that has to happen to make sure the documents are correct. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Max Wyss Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 7:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Caleb Campbell Subject: Re: [PDF-Forms] Automatically recognizing form fields PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ There are tools which can help you to accomplish this. If your overall workflow is paper-based, you would get quite a good deal out of Cardiff's Teleform product line, because it has a good range of tools for the data processing. Considering the PDF part, the resulting forms have a bit a problem because Teleform (and, even more so, the "office" product, LiquidOffice) creates a complete document object model within their forms, using an extensive amount of Acrobat JavaScript. If it is a tool for getting your forms fillable, but you don't need the extensive tool range from Teleform, you should definitely look at Amgraf's OneForm plus (http://www.amgraf.com), which does have an option to semi-automatically create fillable forms, and does take many document formats as input. On the low-end side, they say that even Omniform has some capabilities. Hope, this can help. Max Wyss PRODOK Engineering Low Paper workflows, Smart documents, PDF forms CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland Fax: +41 1 700 20 37 or +1 815 425 6566 e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.prodok.com [ Building Bridges for Information ] ______________________ Shameless Plug: My next conference appearances and workshops: * Workshop by Essociates Group in Chicago, IL, September 29 to October 1, 2003 (http://www.essociatesgroup.com) * PDFConference 2003 in Anaheim, CA, November 9 to 13, 2003 (http://www.pdfconference.com) * And, as always, available for on-site workshops/tutorials/consulting. _________________________ >I have a large number of PDF forms that are not interactive. The company I >work for usually just prints the form, and fills it out by hand. > >Is there any tool I can use that will automatically recognize portions of >the pdf file where form fields Should be? > >Basically, I need something that will scan the document, recognize the >portions of the document where interactive form fields will go (i.e. boxes, >lines, radio buttons etc...) and make them interactive. > >I am desparate to find this software if it exists. I have been searching the >web for over a week now with no luck. To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
