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I know this has been asked before but I could not find the thread. But I
need a freeware program that allows me to scan a paper form and type
information into to feilds. Is there anything that can do this? Thank you.
 
Tabasco said:
I know this has been asked before but I could not find the thread.
But I need a freeware program that allows me to scan a paper form and
type information into to feilds. Is there anything that can do this?
Thank you.
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FillOutAForm:

http://www.jdmcox.com/
 
I know this has been asked before but I could not find the thread. But I
need a freeware program that allows me to scan a paper form and type
information into to feilds. Is there anything that can do this? Thank you.
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Even better IMHO would be a program that allows you to feed the actual
form into the printer and fill it in WITHOUT having to scan it first -
i.e., enter the information to be placed on the form and the horizontal
and vertical co-ordinates (in units that are easily understood - say,
points (=1/72 inch)) from a fixed position on the paper - say the top left
corner and it printed the data on the form itself. I used to have such a
program 'way back in the mists of time, for a dot-matrix printer. It was
brilliant but, like most everything else from the era of dinosaurs and
pterodactyls, it got buried somewhere, never to be seen again and I have
never seen anything quite the same since.

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Even better IMHO would be a program that allows you to feed the actual
form into the printer and fill it in WITHOUT having to scan it first -
i.e., enter the information to be placed on the form and the horizontal
and vertical co-ordinates (in units that are easily understood - say,
points (=1/72 inch)) from a fixed position on the paper - say the top left
corner and it printed the data on the form itself. ......
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You could do that by physically measuring the form and using your word
proccessor to place the words exactly where you want on the page.

Cheers
Daphne
 
You could do that by physically measuring the form and using your word
proccessor to place the words exactly where you want on the page.
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One could, yes, but only with great difficulty which may render the game
not worth the candle. One would have to factor into the measurements such
things as left margin, right margin, top margin bottom margin, leading,
paragraph indents, and so on and so on. And I think you mean a desktop
publisher, not a word processor.

The program I refer to enabled form filling without all the attendant
bullsh** that you get with a WP or DTP package. 'Orses for courses.



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Nicolaas said:
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One could, yes, but only with great difficulty which may render the game
not worth the candle. One would have to factor into the measurements such
things as left margin, right margin, top margin bottom margin, leading,
paragraph indents, and so on and so on. And I think you mean a desktop
publisher, not a word processor.

The program I refer to enabled form filling without all the attendant
bullsh** that you get with a WP or DTP package. 'Orses for courses.
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I believe you can fill in a form pretty easily if you use an old-fangled
device known as "the typewriter". . . ain't progress wonderful. . . ;)

Susan
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I believe you can fill in a form pretty easily if you use an old-fangled
device known as "the typewriter". . . ain't progress wonderful. . . ;)

Susan
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.... and more easily still if you do it by hand using another, even
older-fangled, device known as a "pen"(for those of us who can still
remember how to write) :-þ

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Craig said:
L.D. wrote:
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Trialware, not freeware. $79.95 to be exact.
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erm. . . AFAIK the Liteware version is free. . .

http://www.miraplacid.com/mf/

Lite Edition (version 2.1)
Miraplacid Form Lite Edition

OTOH. . .

<q>
Miraplacid Form requires Microsoft DOTNET runtime.

* OS supported: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003 with DOTNET runtime
* DOTNET Runtime version: 1.0 or 1.1
</q>

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One could, yes, but only with great difficulty which may render the game
not worth the candle. One would have to factor into the measurements such
things as left margin, right margin, top margin bottom margin, leading,
paragraph indents, and so on and so on. And I think you mean a desktop
publisher, not a word processor.
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I have a friend who is a priest. He painstakenly measured out every
government, diocesan, whatever form he needed to use and then built
templates in WordPerfect. Man would he get angry when a form changed
:)

But you are right, for a one off deal, a pen is probably easier.
 
http://www.miraplacid.com/ works good for me
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No, thank you.
Why would I want to use something that required the bloatware,
waste-of-space, multi-megabyte Microsoft .NET runtime to do such a simple
task, maybe once or twice a year?
I have better uses for my disk space than that.

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Nicolaas said:
No, thank you.
Why would I want to use something that required the bloatware,
waste-of-space, multi-megabyte Microsoft .NET runtime to do such a simple
task, maybe once or twice a year?
I have better uses for my disk space than that.
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Bloatware? 3.5MB? You scared me. My machine has plenty of room. If there
is something I'm missing and it is taking lots of space I don't see
please let me know.
L.D.
L.D.
 
... and more easily still if you do it by hand using another, even
older-fangled, device known as a "pen"(for those of us who can still
remember how to write) :-ç
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The yankees spent millions (or was it billions) developing a 'pen' the
would still write in the 'zero' gravity of space ....... us Kiwi's woulda
used pencils.
 
Nicolaas Hawkins wrote:
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Bloatware?
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Yep. Something that could have been done in about another hundred k
adds megs to allow programmers to gain a few really useful functions
at the expense of learning totally new ways of doing exactly the same
thing, and adding many megs of file - which not only takes up disk
space, but takes up RAM and takes more time to run.

Any environment that has to already be present in order to be
installed is something not well-thought-out.
 
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