Automated form handling and generating system and a form sheet associated to said system

A form handling system, comprising

• acceptance means for physically accepting a form sheet with respect to said system,
• optical scanning means for scanning said form sheet, form processing means including
• data storage means interconnected to said scanning means for storing data for generating a set of forms of respective types,
• first recognizing means for
• detecting a plurality of physically sparse format calibrating items at a perimeter of said form sheet,
• measuring a separation between said items, and
• calibrating the form processing means to an expected form appearance based on the separation between said items;
• second recognizing means fed by said first recognizing means for detecting and recognizing directly machine-readable form identifier data, which identifies a selected form from the set, the form identifier data being in a prescribed identifier field of said form sheet, said prescribed identifier field being located according to said expected form appearance;
• third recognizing means, fed by said first and second recognizing means, for locating, according to said expected form appearance, one or more user indicia boxes proper to the selected form and forwarding indicia data of those indicia boxes for processing by said data processing means.