PDF to online form, without retyping it into Google Forms

Drop the document and the questions are read straight off it — including scans and photos of paper. You get a link people can fill in on any phone, and the answers come back as a spreadsheet.

To be straight with you: this does not make a Google Form. It makes a hosted form of its own with a shareable link. If what you need is specifically a form inside your Google account — living in Drive, feeding a Sheet, shared through Workspace — go and use Google Forms, and this page will not try to talk you out of it.

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Drop your form here

or choose a file · PDF, Word, Excel or photo · up to 10 MB

Free, and no account needed · Plans

Where your document goes

The first document is free, with no account and no card.

Why people search for this in the first place

Almost nobody wants a Google Form for its own sake. They want the questions on a form they already have to start collecting answers, and they want those answers to land somewhere they can count — which for most people means a spreadsheet. Google Forms is a good way to get there when the form does not exist yet.

When the form does exist — a permission slip, an intake sheet, a registration form your organisation has already approved — the route through Google Forms starts with retyping every question into an empty editor, and ends with something that no longer looks like the document you began with. That retyping is the step this removes. The questions, their order, and the kind of answer each one wants come off the file itself.

Side by side, including where Google Forms wins

	Google Forms	This
Cost for a simple form	Free and unlimited	First document free, then paid
Lives in your Google account	Yes — Drive, Sheets, Workspace sharing	No. A link you send, answers you export
Getting your PDF's questions in	You retype every one	Read off the document
Reads a scan or a photo of paper	No	Yes
Signature field	No	Yes, drawn or typed
Answers come back as	A spreadsheet	A spreadsheet, or your original PDF filled in

The longer version, written the same way: the full comparison, including the cases where we would tell you to pick them.

One document, one minute

Scroll up and drop the PDF you were about to retype. If the questions came across, the form is made and the link is yours. If they did not, you have lost a minute and there is no account to close.

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