Automate filling-out PDF forms

Questions & Suggestions
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Wondering if anyone here cracked the code on filling-out PDF forms automatically with KM or any other app.

I’ve sort of automated filling-out web forms using 1password but not PDFs.

Thanks.

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Interesting Post, would love to hear more about it too!

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Do you mean having KM recognize common fields like Email and Password in any PDF, however those fields are labeled? If so, I have not suggestions on that front. :slight_smile:

If you mean automatically filling out the same fields in the same or PDF frequently, that’s fairly easy to set up with KM. PDF fields have a tab order. If the form was created correctly, the tab order should match the logical order of the fields–i.e. pressing tab moves sequentially from Field 1 to Field 2 to Field 3. Tell KM to fill in the data for Field 1, send a Tab key, fill in Field 2, send a Tab key, and so on.

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Is it possible to fill in a PDF from KM variables without opening the PDF and then email the pdf to a mailbox?

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Hey Ali,

I'd be somewhat surprised... <shrug>

A little research suggests that:

It might be possible to automate form filling with Acrobat on the Mac.

There is a windows-only pdf form-filler.

But that's a much time as I'm willing to spend on the issue.

-Chris

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Thank you