A prototype of an active form system

Abstract

This paper describes prototyping of a form processingsystem employing dot texture for printing input frames ofthe form. The dot texture is the texture composed of smalldots. It eases the separation of handwritings from theinput frames even under monochrome printing/readingenvironments and makes the system to process thehandwritings according to the information embedded inthe dot texture of the frames. The embedded informationin the form dictates how to process the form so that wecall the form "active form" being opposite to the passiveform processed by the program stored in a documentreader. This method can also be used to embed otherinformation such as attribute of handwriting and so on.This paper presents the design, prototyping and somepreliminary evaluation.