10	Working with Forms
This chapter contains the following topics:
Scanning and Recognizing Forms.
Reading and Navigating in a Form Document.
Filling Out a Form.
Adding a Signature File to a Form.
Printing and Saving a Form.
Scanning and Recognizing Forms
Kurzweil 1000 can recognize fields in forms and gives you ways to explore those fields, fill them out and print the results. 
Once you have scanned and/or rerecognized a form, it is a good idea to read through the form document at least once to orient yourself and get a general idea of where there might be fields you will need to fill, and the context of those fields. Kurzweil 1000 will tell you how many fields are on a page, and will chime when you read past a field. You can add a signature within a text field, and save the form as a .kes document and/or print it.
You can use Kurzweil 1000 to scan and recognize most types of forms. Kurzweil 1000 automatically uses the ScanSoft engine, keeps an image of the page and presents you with the fields, labels, boxes, text areas, as well as the positions of those items, and in an appropriate reading order. You can read, save, edit, cut and paste in forms, just as you do in any document. 
Often, you won’t know that a page is a form until you have recognized and read some of it. If you kept the image, you can rerecognize it as a form.
To scan a form:
Use the Scan as a Form command from the Scan menu; ALT+S, then M.
Note: scanning a page as a form only affects one page. This is true even if you are using a document feeder. It will be less confusing if you have only one form page at a time in the feeder.
To rerecognize a form:
Be sure you have the desired page open when you use Rerecognize a Form from the Scan menu; ALT+S, then E. 
Reading and Navigating in a Form Document
Reading and navigating in form documents is the same as in any document: F5 starts and stops reading, and you can move in the text in the usual manner.
Filling Out a Form
If you plan on reusing the form, be sure to save a copy before filling it out. There are two ways to fill out a form: by using the Form Fill dialog or by using Show Image.
If you have some vision or have an assistant, you can use Show Image from the Tools menu, mnemonics ALT+O, then W, or CONTROL+W to fill out a form. You can magnify the image, invert it, read the recognized text and move among the form fields using TAB and SHIFT+TAB. To return to the form document form the image, press ESCAPE.
To fill out a form: 
Choose Fill a field from the Edit menu, ALT+E+L, or use the shortcut CONTROL+F3. 
The Form Fill dialog opens such that the field closest to your cursor position is presented first. Each dialog may contain as many as five fields, and there may be a series of dialogs, in which case you can use the Next (ALT+N) and Back (ALT+B) options. Note that both these actions save any changes you have made in the current dialog.
To move among the fields in the dialogs, use the TAB and SHIFT+TAB keys. If you want to hear the state of a field, press F7. For additional information about the field, such as its type, label, position and size, press SHIFT+F7.
If there is a field that contains a check box or a list box, then Kurzweil 1000 announces its status. Use the Up or Down arrow to select the desired choice.
Some text fields may contain multiple lines. Use CONTYROL+ENTER to end one line and begin another. If you are using Show Image to fill out the form, you may use the ENTER key instead.
To save your edits in the Form Fill dialog and close the dialog, press the ENTER key or ALT+O for OK. Your cursor returns to the open document. 
To close the dialog without saving edits, press the ESCAPE key or ALT+C.
To hear the text surrounding a field:
You may encounter fields that are unlabeled or uninformative; to hear the recognized text found near the field, press CONTROL+X. Press it again to hear additional text.
Adding a Signature File to a Form
You can add a signature in any form field that is a text box that contains a variable number of characters.
To add a signature file, ensure that your cursor is in the desired field and that the field is a text box, then press CONTROL+UP or DOWN ARROW until you reach the desired signature.
Printing and Saving a Form
When you have completed filling in a form, use the Save function to save the document. Kurzweil 1000 saves the information you have filled out in the recognized fields, along with the recognized text and image of the form. 
To print the image file containing the contents of the fields you have filled out:
1.	Use the Print function. 
2.	When the Print dialog appears, TAB to the Use Images option or press ALT+I and select Yes to enable the setting. 
3.	Press OK.