TeleForm is a complete software suite that interprets forms and documents from  scanner, Fax Server, email or the Internet and convert the Alpha/Numeric Hand-print (ICR), Machine Printed Text (OCR), Shaded Circles/Squares (OMR) and Bar Codes to all Industry Standard Databases.

TeleForm’s Form Designer, is the application where you define the visual layout, field attributes, validations and your data export requirements.  While the Forms Designer looks easy enough, many clients ask us to build their forms for them to speed the design process and to ensure accuracy – for a fixed fee.

If the design process is done right, the form when printed will often look good on paper, but not capture the data you’re looking for – and isn’t that why you use or are thinking of using TeleForm?  Success or failure of your scanning project starts in the Form Designer.  A good eye toward aesthetics and readability certainly make the form pleasing to the eye, however that’s only half the battle.  Often end-users overlook the first decision in the Designer module, which is which form type should you use to process the forms … Traditional Forms (this is the old method -but still works fine – although a bit clunky), VersiForms (we like this one), and Existing Forms (when the paper has already been printed and distributed to your form fillers).  Actually before the decision comes in to play you’ve got to decide if you want to process a Form, a Document or a Package.  Don’t worry too much about that decision … we’ll cover it in another Blog later.

• Fingerprint every page of your form to make it identifiable to TeleForm
• Use logos, lines, boxes to help with page identification and field registration.
• Use unique form numbers to help differentiate pages.
• Use sequential page numbering for page linking
• Move that form id where it’s most visually pleasing