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RemixPDF

Create a fillable PDF form, free

Turn a printed layout into a form people can type into. Draw the fields where they go — text boxes, checkboxes, dropdowns, lists, radio options and signature boxes — and download a real PDF form.

  • Turn a printed form into one people can type into.
  • Free
  • No signup
  • No watermark

Runs on your device

What you have to hand while you work

Why it works

You draw the field where it goes.

Drag a box on the page and it becomes a fillable field — it lands exactly where you drew it, on any page, even a scan. There is no separate canvas to line up against the layout.

Six kinds of field, each with its own settings.

Text, checkbox, dropdown, a list that can take several answers, radio options that join one group, and a signature box. A field can be marked needed, or repeated on every page, and the numbered pins set the tab order.

A repeated name is flagged, not blocked.

Two fields of the same kind can share a name — they will always show the same answer, and the tool says so before you add it. A name held by a different kind can't share, and it explains that too.

Somebody has a form. It exists as a printed sheet, or a scan of one, or a design exported from a layout program, and every person who needs to complete it currently prints it, writes on it, scans it and emails it back. Making it fillable removes all four of those steps.

The work is placing the fields. You draw a box where a field should sit — over the line for a name, the empty square for a tick, the space for a choice — and it becomes a real fillable field there. It lands on the page you drew it on, at the size you drew it, and it sits on top of whatever is underneath, so a scan of a printed form works exactly as well as a born-digital one.

There are six kinds. A text box, which can start with a value already in it and can run to several lines for an address or a note. A checkbox, which can start ticked or empty. A dropdown and a list — the list can allow several answers at once. Radio options, which join into one group so choosing one unchecks the rest. And a signature box, an empty place a signer writes into later. Any field can be marked needed, and most can repeat on every page. Numbered pins on each field set the tab order, and the fields list shows the same numbers — there is one order, shown in both places.

Two fields of the same kind may share a name. The format treats them as one field — they always show the same answer — so the tool flags it before you add, and adding is still allowed because that is exactly how a radio group works and occasionally what you want elsewhere. A name already held by a different kind can’t be shared, and the tool explains that instead of failing later.

What comes out is a genuine PDF form: standard fields that Acrobat, Preview, a browser or a phone can all fill in. If you later want the answers locked so nobody can change them, that is the flatten step, kept separate on purpose.

Free, no signup, no limit on fields or pages, and nothing uploaded.


How it goes

  1. Open the layout.

    A scan or an exported design — anything with the boxes drawn on it.

  2. Draw a field.

    Drag a box, pick the kind — text, checkbox, dropdown, list, radio or signature — and give it a name.

  3. Set its details.

    A starting value, several lines, the choices a list offers, whether the field is needed, or repeated on every page.

  4. Download it.

    What comes out is a real PDF form that any reader can fill in.

What you can check for yourself

Watch the network while you work — nothing leaves this device on the default path. Then go offline and keep working — it all still runs. The two-minute checks live at how your files are handled.

Frequently asked questions

This makes the fields; filling in uses them. If your document already has fields, you want the fill tool instead.

Yes. These are standard PDF form fields, so Acrobat, Preview, a browser and a phone can all fill them in.

Text boxes, checkboxes, dropdowns, lists (which can allow several answers at once), radio options that join one group, and signature boxes a signer can write into. The tool never offers a kind it can't actually make.

Yes, if they are the same kind — the tool flags that they will always show the same answer, which is how a radio group works and occasionally what you want elsewhere. A name already held by a different kind can't be shared, and the tool explains that instead of failing later.

Both. A field marked needed is tagged for whoever fills it in — an unfinished form still downloads, and the finish step names what is missing. Repeating puts the same field on every page.

Yes — a text box can start with text in it, a checkbox can start ticked, and a dropdown can start on one of its options.

Yes. The fields sit on top of the image, so a scan of a printed form becomes fillable without needing the text underneath.

Ready? Drop your PDF above and it opens right here.

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Language

English and Spanish are fully translated. The rest are listed because they are coming — pick one and the page stays in English rather than showing you half a translation.