Create fillable PDF
Draw boxes where people should type, and get a PDF they can fill in.
- Zero-transmission processing
- No watermark
- Limited daily trial
- Unlimited on Pro
Drop your PDF here
or choose it from your files
Your files are never transmitted. Nothing is uploaded.
Before you start
- Set a field's format — date, number, email — so the answer comes in the right shape.
- Mark the fields that must be filled as Required.
Good to know
- Accepts
- Files at once
- One at a time
- Transmission
- None — nothing is uploaded.
Chain it
Run this tool and the next one back to back — nothing to download in between.
How to do it
Add your file
Add the flat PDF you want people to be able to type into — usually a printed form that someone scanned, or a document that was never built as a form.
Set it up the way you want
Draw a box wherever a field belongs and pick text box or checkbox. Name it if you like; unnamed fields get numbered so nothing collides. What you place is exactly what you get.
Download the result
Download the fillable PDF. Anyone can now type into it and save it with any reader, without special software.
More than one change to make?
Open the editor: change the text that’s already there, fill and sign, cover up and rearrange pages — one file, undo for every step.
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Open the editorQuestions about Create fillable PDF
- Why do I have to draw the boxes myself?
- Because guessing where the lines are is worse than asking. A field placed slightly off looks fine on screen and only shows up as a problem after the form has been sent back — so we do not guess. You place it, you get exactly that.
- Can I put a starting value in a field?
- Yes. Anything you type as the starting text appears in the field, and whoever fills the form can type over it. Useful for a date, a reference number or a default that is usually right.
- How is this different from Fill PDF form?
- This one creates the fields; that one types into fields that already exist. If a document tells you it has no form fields, you are in the right place here.