Adobe Acrobat and Capture

[Jon Knight]

On Thu, 15 May 1997, Dean C. Rowan wrote:
> I want to allow folks who view the Web site to make copies 
> of the forms, manually fill them out and mail or fax 'em back.  (That 
> is, I do not want to allow completion and delivery of the forms via 
> the Web at this stage.)
> 
> Are there alternatives to Acrobat?

If its just to be printed, you could go for an image file, a PostScript
document and/or and HPGL document.  In fact if you generate both of the
latter people can feed the appropriate document straight to their
printers.

The big advantage of Capture over simply scanning into a TIFF/PS/HPGL file
is that the OCRed PDF file can be much, much smaller than the image
version.  However note that we've found that Capture's OCR is pretty
variable and so you've got to be prepared to proof read the output and
correct a couple of mistakes per page on average (this is from
photocopies; scanning from originals may be better).

Tatty bye,

Jim'll

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