If you’ve ever struggled to turn a dense PDF questionnaire or research doc into a clean, shareable online form, this guide is for you. With Weavely’s AI-powered form builder, you can upload a PDF and go from static content to fully interactive form in just a few clicks.
This is more than just automation. It’s a smoother way to collect, analyze, and act on data. Below, we’ll walk through how to extract questions from a PDF, style your form to match your brand, and set up automations that send your responses exactly where they need to go.
Start with a Real PDF
Let’s say you’ve got a research survey or customer intake form, something already structured in a PDF, but not fillable or easy to distribute. For example, we’ll be using the PDF shown below in this guide:

Instantly Match Your Brand
You don’t need to know CSS or fiddle with color codes. You can also leverage our AI to automatically adapt your forms to the style you need. You can either provide stylistic instructions via a prompt, or upload an example image. Weavely will auto-match:- Your color palette
- Fonts (via Google Fonts)

Review and Refine Manually (Optional)
We’re not at the point where AI can do everything (yet). Sometimes you still want to add that human touch to your form or survey. Once AI has turned your pdf into a fillable form you can continue in our form editor to:- Add additional questions or pages.
- Fine-tune the look and feel (e.g. roundings, accent colours, fonts, etc.).
- Add answer piping or skip-page logic.
- Create integrations (e.g. with Mailchimp, Google Sheets or others).

Set Up Email Notifications
Want to be notified when someone submits a response, or send them a receipt? In the **Integrations → Email ** tab:-
Add your email (or use
{{email}}
to message the respondent) -
Customize the subject and body with answer piping like:
Send Responses to Google Sheets
For better analysis or collaboration, you can connect your form to Google Sheets.- Go to Integrations → Google Sheets
- Connect your Google account
- Map each form question to a column
Share Your Form
When you’re ready:
- Hit Preview to test the full experience.
- Go to the **Share **tab to get a link to your form (don’t forget to hit the publish button first).
- Optionally, set up the form as a popup on your site or a **standalone page **(see tutorial video).
Why This Flow Works
Turning PDFs into fillable forms used to mean:- Manually rewriting questions
- Reformatting them for every channel
- Hand-styling the form
- Wasting time on email follow-ups and data exports
- Reuse existing content
- Let AI handle conversion to a fillable form
- Match your look instantly
- Automate everything post-submit
Head to weavely.ai and upload your first file.