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ABBYY® FineReader PDF User’s Guide

Filling out forms

ABBYY FineReader allows you to view, fill out, save, and print interactive forms.

1. If a document contains a form, the following message is displayed:

You can disable the highlighting of interactive form fields by unchecking Highlight fields

either in this message or in the main menu: Form Editor > Highlight Fields.

2. To fill out a form, select values form drop-down lists or type in text from the keyboard.

With ABBYY FineReader you can also:

Load data into a form

Click Form Editor > Form Data > Load Form Data from File..., browse to a file with form

data, and click Open. The form will be populated with data from the file you selected.

Form data can be loaded from FDF or XFDF files.

Save form data

Click Form Editor > Form Data > Save Form Data to File..., specify a name for your file,

select an output format, and click Save. The form data will be saved to file.

Form data can be saved in FDF, XFDF, or HTML formats.

Clear form fields

Click Form Editor > Form Data > Reset Form. All of the form fields will be cleared.

If JavaScript is disabled in the program settings, some of the elements in PDF forms may be

unavailable. For example, data format checks may not be available. You can enable JavaScript by

clicking Options > Other > Enable JavaScript in PDF documents.