Ensuring Machine-Readability

You can check your form to make sure it is machine-readable at any moment of the design stage (Tools → Check Form). If no errors are detected, you will see a message saying that the check was successful. If some errors are detected, they will be displayed at the bottom of the window after the check completes. A report will contain all the defects that may prevent the form from being correctly processed by computer: no anchors, no form identifiers, form elements are too close or overlap form margins, etc.

Button	Description
Show Elements	Shows an element that does not meet the machine-readability requirements. The button becomes available when a report line is selected.
Check Form	Use this button after you correct the errors to make sure that your form is machine-readable now.
Save Report…	Save the checking results report into a .TXT file.

Saving a Form

Publishing a Form

⌘I

Introducing ABBYY FormDesigner

ABBYY FormDesigner Interface

Working with ABBYY FormDesigner

Appendix