Fill PDF Form

A fillable PDF carries its own fields: text boxes, checkboxes, radio buttons and drop-down lists. The editor shows them as live controls, and the values you enter are written into those fields when you save, so the recipient sees a normally completed form. A flat form, such as a scan or a printed-to-PDF document, has no fields; there you click where the answer belongs and type, and the text is placed on the page at that spot.

Forms reach you in two kinds. A fillable form has boxes the author built in, and most viewers let you type into them. A flat form is only a picture of boxes, often a scan or a document exported without fields. This page handles both: the PDF opens with the Text tool selected, the built-in fields become live controls you can type into, and on a flat page a click on any line places a text box for your answer.

Tab moves between fields in the order the form author set. Checkboxes and radio buttons are clicked, and drop-down lists open a menu of the allowed choices, so you cannot send a value the form does not accept. For a flat form, Forms > Detect fields finds the printed boxes and turns them into proper fields; this is worth doing when you expect to fill the same form again. To build a fillable form for others to complete, use Create Forms.

Many forms end with a signature line. Sign PDF is the focused page for signing only, but the Sign tool is in the same toolbar here, so you can fill and sign in one pass. If the recipient must not be able to change your answers, run the result through Flatten PDF, which merges the fields into the page. To combine the form with ID scans or certificates, Merge PDF joins them into one file.

The finished form is saved on our servers, handled automatically with no human access, and deleted within 2 hours of the task. There is no account to create and no limit on how many forms you fill; each PDF can be up to 200 MB. For the full set of editing tools, open PDF Editor.