I've been given some scanned documents/forms which I've cleaned up. But I need to add text areas to the forms so that they can be filled in on PC's rather than by hand.

Create PDF form from scanned form image using Bytescout Form Filler: tutorial

The ByteScout software linked to above seems to do the trick & is able to save the forms as fillable PDF form documents. Does anyone know of any similar freeware programs?

Or failing that a decent cracked program?

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Found a freeware app called Miraplacid, but dunno yet if it will let me save the form as a fillable pdf. Will have to see.

Miraplacid Form (Lite Edition) download and review - fill and print scanned forms from SnapFiles


Any others greatly appreciated

ABBYY ScanTo Office 1.0 looks promising, tho is not free

VeryPDF Form Filler 3.1 Portable


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InFormEnter 0.3.1 form filler for Firefox

InFormEnter is a handy add-on for Firefox that adds a small, clickable icon next to every input field in a web form, from where you can select the item to be inserted - no typing required. You can configure it to display your frequently used information such as name, email, address and whatever else you want to be available from the form menu.

Hello fynstee,

Bytescout looks interesting as do some of the other progs on their page you have the link to above. However, bytescout is trialware so not really free probably time limited or function limited.

I will try to keep my eyes open for similar prog as it would be a useful add to my library of progs also.

Thanks so much for caring to share all you do

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Wow! Totally Awesome Jerry. Thanks so much for caring to share such an awesome progs, they will be a wonderful and very useful addition to my library and I'm sure a lot of great fun playing with. Great brain food.

Found an online pdf editor. It seems to allow people to make fillable forms for use with Adobe Reader... or Jerrys much more reasonably sized portable VeryPDF Form Filler 3.1
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