How to Turn a PDF into a Fillable Online Form with AI
Need to turn an existing PDF into a fillable online form? Here’s how!
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.
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:Weavely is able to automatically convert this pdf into a fillable form. Upon creating a new form, upload the pdf and let our AI do its magic.Optionally, you can also provide a prompt to further tweak the result. For example:
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Seperate categories in the document across diferent pages in the form.
Weavely will scan the document, extract the questions (including types like multiple choice, rating scales, or open-ended and even file uploads), and generate a fully working form. No manual copy-pasting required!
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:
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).
Whether you’re a researcher, a startup, or a policy team, this workflow gets your form live, on-brand, and connected to your stack in minutes.Want to try it with your own PDF?
Head to weavely.ai and upload your first file.