Scanning form template

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I seem to recall reading somewhere that you can scan a printed form and
somehow use that "image" as an overlay for entering data. You make a table
with the same fields as shown on the printed form, then place the fields over
the spaces on the scanned form's image so that it looks like the form should
look, but you are actually putting the data into the table fields. Hope this
makes sense! Does anyone know anything about this and how it is done? I'm
using Access 97.
 
I guess you could make that scanned form image a background picture and then
just put the fields from your table on top of it.
 
Scan the form and save it as a file type that Access will recognize. I know
it will recognize .bmp files but they can be large. To find out what
formats Access will recognize, open a form and open its properties dialog.
In the picture property, press the build button which will bring up a
dialog. Check the file types you see in the file type list.

Once you get the file, use the various Picture properties of the form to get
it to look the way you want. If you embed the picture, don't be alarmed at
the dramatic increase of the size of your .mdb. If you don't need to embed
it, the file size won't bloat.

Once the form's background looks like the paper form, place text boxes at
appropriate places.
 
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