FormAssist is distributed with FormSuite as a convenient, precompiled executable. We also provide the source code and Visual Studio project so you can customize FormAssist to better suit your needs.
In the FormAssist project, there are several build configurations:
| Build Configuration |
Description |
| Debug |
- Step through the FormAssist code using Visual Studio debugger.
- Compilation will include only the core FormSuite components necessary for the typical forms processing workflow: FormDirector, FormFix, FormsAPI, SmartZone ICR, SmartZone OCR, ScanFixXpress, ImagXpress, and NotateXpress for template markup purposes.
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| Debug_PDFX |
- Step through the FormAssist code using Visual Studio debugger.
- Compilation will include only the core FormSuite components necessary for the typical forms processing workflow, plus the add-on component, PDF Xpress1.
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| Debug_BX |
- Step through the FormAssist code using Visual Studio debugger.
- Compilation will include only the core FormSuite components necessary for the typical forms processing workflow, plus the add-on component, Barcode Xpress2.
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| Debug_ALL |
- Step through the FormAssist code using Visual Studio debugger.
- Compilation will include only the core FormSuite components necessary for the typical forms processing workflow, plus the add-on components, Barcode Xpress2 and PDF Xpress1.
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| Release |
- Strips debugging features in favor of optimization.
- Compilation will include only the core FormSuite components necessary for the typical forms processing workflow: FormDirector, FormFix, FormsAPI, SmartZone ICR, SmartZone OCR, ScanFixXpress, ImagXpress, and NotateXpress for template markup purposes.
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Release_PDFX |
- Strips debugging features in favor of optimization.
- Compilation will include only the core FormSuite components necessary for the typical forms processing workflow, plus the add-on component, PDF Xpress1.
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| Release_BX |
- Strips debugging features in favor of optimization.
- Compilation will include only the core FormSuite components necessary for the typical forms processing workflow, plus the add-on component, Barcode Xpress2.
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| Release_ALL |
- Strips debugging features in favor of optimization.
- Compilation will include only the core FormSuite components necessary for the typical forms processing workflow, plus the add-on components, Barcode Xpress2 and PDF Xpress1.
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1While ImagXpress supports scanned, Image-Only PDFs (see Supported File Formats for more details), PDF Xpress provides more comprehensive PDF support when you need to create form templates from PDFs or process forms that are in PDF format. Visit our PDF Xpress product page for more information.
2Barcode Xpress supports reading of a wide variety of barcodes when processing forms. Visit our Barcode Xpress product page form more information.
