PDF to Fillable PDF Converter

The new PDF to Fillable PDF converter turns a flat PDF form into a fillable one. It reads the text and lines of each page, finds the places where a person would write, and adds form fields there. The fields have no border and no background, so the page looks the same until someone fills it in.

Highlights

• Text fields on writing lines, empty table cells, labeled boxes, comb boxes and date slots such as __/__/____.
• Check boxes and radio buttons on small squares, circles and ballot box characters. Yes and No boxes on one row become a radio group, and boxes printed as checked start checked.
• Dropdowns and list boxes where a select is printed with its arrow or its options, and signature fields on lines labeled "Signature".
• Each field is named after its nearest label, which also becomes its tooltip. Date fields that show their format, such as MM/DD/YYYY, get date formatting in viewers that run form scripts.
• A PDF that already has form fields, or where nothing to fill in is found, is returned unchanged. When fields are added, the result is saved without encryption, and a PDF/A input loses its PDF/A identification.
• Scanned PDFs get no fields, because the detection needs the page's text and vector graphics. To make a web form fillable, use the ConvertFormFields parameter of HTML to PDF instead.

Parameters

• PageRange (string, default 1-last) - the pages to add fields to, for example 1-3,5, odd or 2-last. Other pages are left as they are.
• Password (string) - opens a password-protected PDF.

Try it out

• PDF to Fillable PDF
• API sandbox: pdf-to-fillable