FormAssist supports the creation and processing of forms that use the following image formats:

BMP (Microsoft Windows Bitmap)

• Reads 1-, 4-, 8-, 16-, 24-, and 32-bit BMP.
• Reads 1-, 4-, and 8-bit RLE compressed BMP.
• 16- and 32-bit BMP files are converted to 24-bit.

JPEG

• Reads 8- and 12-bit grayscale and 24-bit color JPEG.
• Reads JFIF compliant JPEG and Progressive JPEG formats.
• Reads EXIF and IPTC metadata.

PDF

• When FormAssist is built without the add-on PDFXpress component, PDF support is handled by ImagXpress. ImagXpress’ PDF support is limited to scanned, Image-Only PDF files. "Image-Only" is defined as a PDF containing one image per page and without searchable text. For more comprehensive PDF support, use PDFXpress. See Building FormAssist From Source for information on building FormAssist to use PDFXpress or ImagXpress for PDF support.
• Reads 1-bit ASCIIHex, ASCII85, CCITTFax (G3-1D, G3-2D, G4), Flate, JBIG2, JPEG, JPEG2000, LZW, RLE, and uncompressed image data. Single and multiple page.
• Reads 4-, 8-, 24-, and 32-bit ASCIIHex, ASCII85, Flate, LZW, RLE, JPEG, JPEG2000- and uncompressed image data. Single and multiple page.

PNG (Portable Network Graphics)

• Reads 1-, 4-, 8-, 16-, and 24-bit PNG.
• Reads interlaced and non-interlaced formats.
• 16-bit PNG files are decompressed to 24-bit.

TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)

• Reads 1-, 4-, 8-, 16-, 24-, and 32-bit uncompressed TIFF.
• Reads CCITT RLE, Group 3, and Group 4 compressed TIFF.
• Reads 1-, 4-, 8-, and 24-bit Pack Bits TIFF.
• Reads 1-, 4-, 8-, and 24-bit LZW TIFF.
• Reads 8-bit grayscale and 24-bit color (JPEG 6 and JPEG 7) TIFF.
• Reads 1-, 4-, 8-, and 24-bit deflate TIFF.
• Reads multiple page TIFF.
• 16- and 32-bit TIFF files are converted to 24-bit.
• Reads CMYK TIFF.
• Reads 9- to 16-bit gray scale TIFF.
• Handles either "big endian" or "little endian" byte ordering.
• Reads tiled TIFF with LZW, JPEG, and G4 compression types.
• Reads IPTC and TIFF metadata.