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2008-07-29 07:27:15
ianbesterd
Registered: Jul 29 2008
Posts: 12

I am new to Adobe and have downloaded the trial version of Adobe Pro 8. My compnay is looking at purchasing Adobe Pro 9 but before we do we figured we would try a few things that are important to our business.

We are in construction and constantly scanning documents into the server. Our scanner scans either to a tiff or PDF. We usually use the PDf function. We need to be able to fill out Bid forms and other documents to then resend back. I have tried a few different things and am unable to get the pdf's so that I can fill them out on the lines they provided. I need to have someone help me get from a scanned pdf to be able to quickly and esily fill out the form and the send back in pdf.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.0, Windows
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2008-07-29 08:11:06
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Dimitri
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Registered: Nov 1 2005
Posts: 1389
Hi ianbesterd,

Have you tried to use Acrobat 8 Pro's Form Field Recognition function on your scanned PDFs? There is a nice video here at AUC that shows how to do this-
https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a200985228/p17266135/

Form Field Recognition is a very cool feature that was added in version 8. It is not perfect, but typically gets you most of the way there very quickly. You may need to add some form fields that get missed or tweak a few property settings for some fields.

Hope this helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.pdfscripting.com
www.windjack.com

Dimitri Munkirs
WindJack Solutions
pdfscripting.com

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2008-07-29 12:34:10
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ianbesterd
Registered: Jul 29 2008
Posts: 12
Thanks for your link. I watched the video and it was very helpful. The only problem I am having is that the field recognition software doesn't seem to work on most things I have scanned in. It seems to be greyed out on most documents. One form that was like the video the software came back saying there were no fields when there was quite a few. Any ideas?
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2008-07-29 13:06:21
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George_Johnson
Expert
Registered: Jul 6 2008
Posts: 1876
Have you considered using the Typewriter tool in Acrobat? If you will only be filling out a particular form once, it may be sufficient. The typewriter tool lets you quickly add text to a PDF. Select the tool, click where you want to add text, and type. You can also edit and reposition, change the font size, etc.

For more information: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=332263&sliceId=2George
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2008-07-29 13:45:42
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gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
If you have to scan in a one of form, you could consider [lurl=http://www.nuance.com/paperport/]PaperPort 11[/url from Nuance. It will not enable save rights or provide macro support, but if you have many one of type forms it will vonvert them to pdf and provide an easy edit for form fields.

George Kaiser

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