Convert a PDF to a fillable form
Drop the document you already have. The questions are read straight off it — including scans and photos of paper — and you get a link people can fill in and sign. Each response comes back as a spreadsheet row and as your original PDF, filled in.
The first document is free, with no account and no card.
A fillable PDF, or a fillable web form?
These are two different things and the search for them is the same sentence, so it is worth thirty seconds. A fillable PDF is a file: you send it, someone types into it in a PDF reader, saves it and sends it back. A fillable web form is a link: someone opens it, answers, and you have the answers. This converter makes the second, and gives you the first back on the way out — the filled copy of your original document, per response.
| Fillable PDF file | Fillable web form | |
|---|---|---|
| How it reaches people | A file you email, and they have to save and send back | A link, opened on any phone or laptop |
| What they need | A PDF reader that can save form data — not all of them can | Nothing. No app, no account, no sign-up |
| Works offline | Yes | No — filling it in needs a connection |
| Where answers end up | One file back per person, collated by you | Collected in one place as you go |
| What you can get out | The returned files | A spreadsheet, and your original PDF with the answers written onto it |
So if the deliverable really must be a PDF file you hand out yourself — a contract that gets signed away from a desk, anything filled in where there is no signal — a desktop editor like Acrobat is the right tool and this is not. If what you actually need is the answers, a link collects them without anybody installing anything, and the filled PDF still comes back out at the end.
What it reads
A PDF, whether it was made fillable already or is flat. A Word or Excel file. A photograph or scan of a sheet of paper, which is usually where these forms actually live. The questions, their order, and the kind of answer each one wants are read off the document, so there is no editor to open and no field to drag.
The one-minute test
Scroll up and drop the form you came here to convert. If it read your questions wrong, you have lost a minute and no account exists to close. If it read them right, you have the form and the link.
No document to hand? Start from a free template or look at a finished form.