User manual NUANCE OMNIFORM 3

[. . . ] OmniForm User's Manual For Windows 95 and NT CAERE CORPORATION 100 Cooper Court Los Gatos, California 95032-3321 USA Caere GmbH Innere Wiener Strasse 5 81667 München, Germany Caere UK Information Centre Abbey House 4 Abbey Orchard Street Westminster, London SW1P 2JJ Centre d'informations Caere 50 rue des Archives 75004 Paris, France Please Note To use this program, you should know how to work in the Microsoft Windows environment. Please refer to Windows documentation if you have questions about how to use menu commands, dialog boxes, scroll bars, edit boxes, and so on. OmniForm User's Manual for Windows 95 and NT (Version 3. 0) 800-1281-030, A Copyright© 1998 Caere Corporation. CAERE®, Logical Form Recognition, and OmniForm are trademarks of Caere Corporation. Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Such designations appearing in this manual have been printed in initial caps. 2 Chapter 1 Introduction OmniForm is the easy way to convert your paper forms to electronic forms. [. . . ] Or, select one or more objects and choose Paste Scrap in the Scrapbook Commands icon menu. Small thumbnail sketches of the objects appear as Scrap 1, Scrap 2, and so forth in the scrapbook. You cannot store an OLE object in the scrapbook. Designing a Form 45 Using the Scrapbook Placing Scraps in a Form 1 2 Open the desired scrapbook. Select a scrap and drag it into your form. Or, select a scrap and choose Copy Scrap in the Scrapbook Commands icon menu. You can select only one scrap at a time. The selected scrap appears as the original object in your form. Renaming a Scrap 1 2 3 Select a scrap. Choose Rename Scrap in the Scrapbook Commands icon menu. Type a new name for the scrap and press Enter to accept the name. Press Esc to cancel the command and leave the name as it is. Deleting a Scrap 1 2 Select a scrap. Choose Delete Scrap in the Scrapbook Commands icon menu. You can also press the Delete key to delete a selected scrap. You cannot undo the Delete Scrap command!3 OmniForm prompts you to confirm your choice. Creating a New Scrapbook 1 2 Choose New Scrapbook. . . Type a name in the Scrapbook Name text box. 3 Click OK. 46 Designing a Form Using the Scrapbook A new, empty scrapbook appears. Renaming a Scrapbook 1 2 3 Open the scrapbook to rename. The Rename Scrapbook dialog box appears. 4 5 Type a name in the New Name text box. The new scrapbook name appears in the Scrapbook drop-down list. Choose Delete Scrapbook in the Scrapbook Commands icon menu. Deleting a Scrapbook 1 2 You cannot undo the Delete Scrapbook command!3 OmniForm prompts you to confirm your choice. You can also delete a scrapbook file directly from the hard drive. Scrapbook files are stored in the location c:\OmniForm\Scrapbooks. Always close OmniForm before deleting any OmniForm files from the hard drive. Changing the Scrapbook View 1 2 Choose View in the Scrapbook Commands icon menu. · Choose Icons to view the scraps as thumbnail sketches of the stored objects. · Choose List to view the scraps as a list. Scraps are listed in the order they were created in both Icon and List views. Designing a Form 47 Inserting OLE Objects in a Form Inserting OLE Objects in a Form This section describes how to use object linking and embedding (OLE) to insert objects in a form. Inserting objects is a convenient way to place information from other sources in OmniForm. OmniForm supports objects created in a variety of applications. For example, instead of scanning a page of text into OmniForm, you could create a Microsoft Word Document object and insert it in the form either as fully displayed text or as a launchable icon. [. . . ] recognition The process of using converting a paper form into an editable electronic form. See Logical Form Recognition and Optical Character Recognition. record In OmniForm, a collection of all the information on a form. Whenever you import or open a new form and fill it in, you have a new Glossary - 20 database that consists of one record. [. . . ]