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Exepad
PDF to Form

Digitise any PDF form without retyping it

Upload your PDF form — fillable or scanned. Get a working digital version with matching fields, validation, storage, and email alerts — in minutes.

Digitise this application form PDF

No credit card required · Published in minutes

Works with both fillable and scanned PDFs

4–10 min
From upload to live form
0 lines
Of code required
Every field
Extracted automatically
OCR + AcroForm
Both detection paths

How it works

Three steps. No manual field mapping.

1

Describe the form's purpose

Tell Exepad what the form is for — intake, application, consent, registration — and what should happen when someone submits.

2

Attach your PDF form

Upload the .pdf. Exepad detects AcroForm fields directly, or runs OCR on scanned forms to identify labels and input zones — no manual mapping.

3

Publish and share

Your digital form is live. Share the URL, embed it on a site, or send directly to respondents. Submissions flow into the app's database.

Not a fillable PDF.
A working digital form.

Your PDF becomes a real web form with matching fields, typed inputs, validation, and storage — so you stop retyping attachments and start using the data.

Fields matched to your PDF

AcroForm fields are extracted directly. Scanned forms use OCR plus computer vision to identify text boxes, checkboxes, and signature lines.

Submissions stored structured

Every submission becomes a row in a searchable database. No more opening PDFs one by one and transcribing into a spreadsheet.

Email alerts and auto-reply

Your team gets an email on every submission with the extracted data; respondents get an auto-reply with their reference number.

Search and filter submissions

Find any submission by any field value. Saved filter views let you triage incoming records — urgent first, by region, by status.

Submission analytics

See submissions over time, completion rates, and where respondents abandon the form. Fix the field that's losing you data.

Mobile-friendly layout

Forms work on phones as smoothly as desktops. Tap-sized controls replace fiddly PDF form widgets that weren't designed for touch.

Built for PDF forms

Exepad handles the two kinds of PDF forms you actually encounter in the wild.

PDF

AcroForm fields extracted directly

If your PDF has actual form fields, Exepad reads the field tree — names, types, defaults, required flags — and reproduces it all faithfully.

PDF

Scanned forms handled via OCR

If your PDF is a scan of a paper form, Exepad runs OCR to read labels and computer vision to locate input zones — same output.

PDF

Checkboxes, radios, signatures

Boolean fields become checkboxes or radio groups with proper state handling. Signature fields become touch-drawn signatures on mobile.

PDF

Multi-page forms become multi-step

A long multi-page PDF becomes a multi-step form with progress indicators — respondents don't face a wall of questions at once.

Fillable PDF vs. Exepad form

A fillable PDF gets emailed around as attachments. A digital form captures the data, stores it, and tells you it arrived — without anyone retyping.

Feature
Fillable PDF
Exepad form
Filling it out
Download, fill in Acrobat or Preview, save, email back
Type on any device; submit with one click
Where submissions go
Email inbox full of filled-in .pdf attachments
A searchable database of structured records
Data extraction
You open each PDF and retype into a spreadsheet
Data is captured structured on submit — no retyping
Validation
People leave fields blank or type dates as text
Required fields, email format, date picker enforced
Mobile use
Fillable PDFs are painful on phones
Responsive form layout optimised for mobile
Notifications
You hope the attachment lands in your inbox
Email on every submission plus auto-reply to respondent
Updates to the form
Re-distribute the new PDF, explain the changes
Edit fields in the app; existing submissions stay intact

Everything a fillable PDF can't do

A fillable PDF is still a file. A digital form is infrastructure — capturing, validating, storing, and reporting on every submission automatically.

Typed inputs with field-level validation
AcroForm + OCR field extraction
Required field and email format enforcement
Multi-step flow for long forms
Touch-drawn signature fields
Email alerts on every submission
Auto-reply to respondents with reference number
Submission database — searchable, filterable
Submission analytics with drop-off tracking
Your own domain with SSL included
Embeddable on any existing website
Export submissions back to CSV or Excel

From PDF form to digital form
in one sitting

Your PDF already has the fields. Exepad just makes them typable, storable, and reportable.

Form fields become web inputs

AcroForm text fields, checkboxes, dropdowns, and signature zones are extracted and mapped to HTML inputs with matching behaviour.

Sections become form steps

Distinct pages or sections of the PDF become steps in a multi-step form, keeping long intake processes manageable for respondents.

Submissions become records

Every submission writes a structured record to the app's database — queryable by any field, exportable to any format.

Frequently asked — PDF to Form

Ready to digitise?

Upload your PDF form. Describe the purpose. Get a real digital form with capture in minutes.