Abstract: Many forms exist as fillable electronic documents (FEDs), such as in the Portable Document Format (PDF). Generating web-based forms that match these FEDs, even with existing software tools, is time consuming and laborious. A computing system and a related process are provided that automatically and very quickly generate a web-based form that looks the same as a FED. In particular, the computing process includes extracting a fillable object (e.g. a checkbox) in a FED and generating a pixel image of an entire page in the FED. A web-fillable object (e.g. a JSON fillable object) is generated that corresponds to the fillable object. The web-based form is created by overlaying the web-fillable object over the pixel image.

Abstract: Many forms exist as fillable electronic documents (FEDs), such as in the Portable Document Format (PDF). Generating web-based forms that match these FEDs, even with existing software tools, is time consuming and laborious. A computing system and a related process are provided that automatically and very quickly generate a web-based form that looks the same as a FED. In particular, the computing process includes extracting a fillable object (e.g. a checkbox) in a FED and generating a pixel image of an entire page in the FED. A web-fillable object (e.g. a JSON fillable object) is generated that corresponds to the fillable object. The web-based form is created by overlaying the web-fillable object over the pixel image.