Tools / Fill a PDF form
Fill in a PDF form
Type into the fields the form already has, in this tab.
- This tool has no upload step
- This browser-only engine does not send your file
- Every tool driven in a browser each release
Choose a PDF
or drop them here
How it works
- Add the form. Its fields appear as boxes to type into.
- Fill them in.
- Choose whether to lock the answers, then download it.
Typing into a form your reader will not let you type into
A form with real fields can be completed in this tab, saved, and sent, without printing it and photographing it back.
The boxes are the form's own fields
If nothing appears to type into, the PDF has no field layer and is a picture of a form. Use Edit PDF to place text on it instead.
Tab moves you through the fields in the order the form defines
Which is not always the order they appear on the page. Check every box before you save.
Lock the answers if it is going somewhere official
That flattens them into the page so the recipient sees what you typed.
Read it back at full size
Text that overflows a small field can be cut off in the saved file even though you can see all of it while typing.
Where this is the wrong tool. This fills fields that already exist. It cannot add fields to a form that has none, and a scanned form is a picture with no fields at all.
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Questions
It says my PDF has no form fields.
Then it has none. A form you can type into has real fields inside the file; a scan of a form is a picture, and the boxes on it are printed lines with nothing behind them. Neither this nor any other tool can find fields that are not there. Use Edit PDF to put your own text on top instead.
Should I lock the answers in?
If you are sending the form to somebody, yes. Left unlocked, the answers live in the form layer, which means some printers and some phone viewers show the page blank and anybody can edit what you wrote. Locking draws the answers into the page itself. It cannot be undone, so keep your original.
Can it sign the form?
No, and it does not pretend to. A signature field wants a certificate, which is a different job with different rules, and a picture of a signature dropped into the box is not the same thing. Fields of that kind are skipped and the page says how many were.
Does the form leave my device?
No. Reading the fields and writing the answers both happen in this tab, in the same library the flatten tool uses. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is kept.
Reading on this
Looking for a particular form?
- Official tax and government forms 22 forms from the IRS, the CRA and Revenue, checked against their source