You won't believe how easily a paper form turns electronic

Just put a form on your scanner and start OmniForm. A helpful wizard asks what you'd like to do and offers you several choices. Just click "Scan a form or image file," and watch as OmniForm operates the scanner, then analyzes the resulting form image for both text and form elements. Seconds later, there's the form on your computer screen, ready to be filled.

If you want to edit the form or correct any minor recognition errors, it's easy with OmniForm's powerful, intuitive design tools. These tools make form design and editing quick and easy and give you extensive control over the way your forms look and operate. Some tools give you simple ways to create fillable fields for your form, such as check boxes. Or they let you add text or graphics to the form. Other tools help you modify fields to make filling easier or to limit filling choices. For instance, you can build in calculations and spell-checking, or add drop-down lists. You can even insert movies or sound files to give users instructions on filling a form.

There are 13 design tools in the Drawing Toolbar on the left side of the OmniForm screen.
	The Text Tool. When you move the cursor over a form, the cursor's shape changes to a cross hair with an "A" attached. You can draw a box of any shape on the form and entertext in the box. The text will be a permanent part of the new form in Fill mode.
	The Fill Text tool. When you move the cursor over the form, the cursor's shape changes to a cross hair with a box attached. You use it to draw a box that turns into a solid yellow box with a line under it. If you switch to Fill mode, this box becomes a fillable field that you can type in.
	With the Line, Oval and Rectangle tools, you can draw corresponding shapes on the form.
	The Graphic tool lets you draw a box and then import a graphic into it in Design mode. This graphic will show up on every copy of the form in Fill mode.
	A similar tool, the Fill Graphic tool, lets you draw a box in Design mode into which a graphic will be imported later while you are in Fill mode. In this case, each copy of the form in Fill mode can have a different graphic.
	The Comb tool lets you draw a rectangle that contains a row of fillable boxes, for use when the field is to contain numeric data of a predictable length, such as Zip codes and telephone numbers. You do not have to tab from element to element in a comb field. OmniForm automatically moves the cursor to the next element as you type.
	The Check Box and Circle Text tools let you draw boxes and circles that will be used for choosing options on the form in Fill mode.
	The Table tool is for creating tables quickly. Drag diagonally with the left mouse button held down and you will see columns and rows appear automatically, with editable labels at the top of each column.
	The Lock tool is used to lock any tool so it can be used multiple times. It is activated by clicking the Lock tool and then clicking the tool to be locked. The locked tool is unlocked by clicking the Lock tool again.
Here are examples of tools that are new for OmniForm 4.0
	The Format Painter takes text style settings from one selection and applies them to another
	The Object Stamp tool does a similar thing with object settings.
	When either the Format Painter or the Object Stamp tool is selected, the Proofing Options tool becomes available. This tool allows you to set which style settings you want to apply.
	The Line Convert tool is used to change fill fields to lines. OmniForm may define a line used as a design element as a fillable field. This tool lets you change them to horizontal lines.
	The Tab Grouping tool lets you select many fields that should be numbered together and orders them automatically.
There is another set of tools, the Web tool bar, which is also new
	The Preview in Browser tool shows you an HTML version of the form in a Web browser
	The Publish tool sends the form to Microsoft's Web Publishing Wizard.
	The Hyperlink tool is used to add a hyperlink to objects on your form