Bytescout Form Filler is software for easy filling in scanned forms. You can use ready scanned form picture or scan paper form directly using software. Form Filler automatically converts scanned hardcopy paper form into fillable form. Form Filler can automatically detect text fields to fill. You can add text, checkmarks, stamp images, print filled form, save project for further use or save you form as PDF or fillable PDF form document.

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This tutorial gives you step-by-step instructions for creating text fields in your scanned form and filling them in. It also shows how to save your filled form as PDF or fillable PDF form document.

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Text fields to fill can be created in two ways in Form Filler. You can create fields manually or let Form Filler to detect them for you automatically. To find fillable fields automatically, use AutoFind Fields to Fill button on the toolbar.

AutoFind Fields to Fill button on the toolbar for auto-detection of text fields

After using AutoFind Fields to Fill option, the program will recognize text fields to fill and you will see fields with “type text here”. You can see a form with auto-detected fields to fill in the picture below.

Auto-detected text fields are marked with “Type text here”. Left-click a field to fill it in.

To fill in your form, just left-click one of the auto-detected text fields and type in text using keyboard. In the next picture you can see how we type the name in the first line of our application form which was detected as a text field to fill in.


Start filling in auto-detected text field by left-clicking it and then type in your text

To create a field manually, left-click any place of your scanned form picture. You will see a box of active text field in which you can type your text.


Text field can be created manually in any place of a form with one left-click

The fields can be moved both before and after entering text (hold left mouse button to drag and drop a field). Text can be edited at any time, font style and size can also be changed whenever you want. Font settings menu is on the toolbar. You can select font name, font size and font style to fill your form in the best way. Font settings are applied to each text field separately.

Font settings applied to a text field

There is one more way to change font. Right-click a text field and you’ll see a text field menu. Choose Change Font menu-item to open Font settings window.

Font settings window can be opened by clicking Change Font in a text field menu

To remove text field from a form, you can a) right-click text field and click Remove menu-item of a text field menu; b) select text field with a left-click and press Remove button on the toolbar.


Remove buttons for removing text field from a form

A form edited in Bytescout Form Filler can be saved as a fillable PDF Form using File \ Save as PDF Form:


Save as PDF Form menu-item is used to save edited document as a fillable PDF form

Saved fillable PDF Form can be viewed with Adobe Reader. In the picture below you can see our application form saved as PDF Form and opened with Adobe Reader. The fields which were edited in Bytescout Form Filler are highlighted with color.

Fillable PDF Form opened with Adobe Reader (filledform.pdf )

Filling form with Adobe Reader: you can fill out your form in Adobe Reader, but you can’t save data typed in it (Adobe Reader limitation). You can also edit the text entered in Bytescout Form Filler and delete checkmarks you’ve added. You can apply changes only to the fields edited in Form Filler. If you need a copy of the form filled with Adobe Reader, print it or else you will miss your data.