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This topic relates only to OmniPage Professional.
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OmniPage Professional uses the Logical Form RecognitionTM technology to let you create active (electronically fillable) forms from scanned forms or static (flat) forms saved as image files.
Use OmniPage Professional with LFR to scan unfilled forms, so it detects and places the form elements. These can be modified in the Text Editor, by adding, moving, modifying or deleting elements; the form can then be saved to a variety of formats: PDF, RTF, HTML or XSN (Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 format) using the True Page formatting level. These files (except HTML) can then be distributed as fillable forms. HTML supports only static forms.
To process one or more pages, or a whole document as a form, choose Form in the Layout Description drop-down list
for automatic processing: before scanning or loading the image file,
for manual processing: before recognizing the image.
To process part of a page as a form, import the image, draw a form zone over the required part, then send it to recognition. Form zones can be rectangular or irregular.
The detected form elements will be displayed in the Text Editor. Click 
True Page to enable the editing of form elements. To mark fillable form fields with yellow highlight, select Highlight fillable fields in the Text Editor panel of the Options dialog box.
Use the two toolbars: Form Drawing and Form Arrangement to make modifications and produce a fillable form. You can create form elements only on page parts that were processed as forms.
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OmniPage supports form creation and editing, however the form tools available in OmniPage are not designed to fill in forms. After saving with True Page, the form becomes fillable in the target application.
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A separate technology, Form Data Extraction (FDE), allows data to be extracted from sets of filled forms. FDE requires an active PDF form to be chosen as a template, and provides output in CSV text format. A fillable PDF form created by LFR can serve as a template file for FDE.
