RemixPDF

Create a fillable PDF form, free

Turn a printed layout into a form people can type into. Add the fields, say which ones are needed, and set the order the tab key follows.

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

Runs on your device

This tool is being built — the page below is a preview of what's coming.

What you have to hand while you work

Why it works

Tab order is the page, not a dialog.

Every field carries a number shown on the page itself. Move a field and its number moves with it — that *is* the tab order editor, so there is nothing separate to open and nothing to keep in sync.

Three decisions per field, and no more.

Needed or optional. This page only or every page. Where it sits in the order. Anything else is a property you can set later.

It warns about duplicate names rather than blocking them.

Two fields sharing a name will always show the same answer. Occasionally that is what you want on a repeated header; usually it is a mistake, so it is flagged with what will actually happen.

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 fields and deciding three things about each: whether an answer is required, whether the field repeats on every page, and where it sits in the order the tab key follows. That third one is where most form builders become unpleasant, because tab order is usually a separate dialog listing field names in a sequence you have to imagine as positions on a page.

Here the order is on the page. Each field carries a number where it sits, and moving a field renumbers it in place. There is one array behind it driving both the numbers you see and the order the tab key uses, so the two cannot disagree — which is the actual failure in tools that keep them apart.

Field names get a warning rather than a rule. Two fields with the same name always show the same answer, which is occasionally exactly right — a reference number that should appear on all six pages — and usually a mistake made while duplicating a field. So it is flagged, with the consequence stated, and not blocked.

The last decision belongs to whoever fills the form in rather than to you, but it is worth knowing you have set it up for: when they finish, they choose whether their answers stay editable or become permanent. That is framed as a question about who gets the document next, which is what it actually is.

It works on a scan, which is how most real forms arrive: the fields sit on top of the image, and the paper underneath does not need to exist digitally for the result to be fillable in any reader.

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. Add the fields.

    Text, checkbox, choice, date, signature. Each lands where you put it.

  3. Set what matters.

    Needed or optional, and repeat-on-every-page for things like a reference number.

  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.

It starts as reading order, which is right almost always. Move a field and its number changes on the page, so the order is something you can see rather than a list to maintain.

Yes, by giving them the same name — useful for a reference number repeated on every page. We flag it when it looks accidental, because two fields with one name always show one answer.

Yes. Nothing turns red while someone is filling the form in; the check happens when they try to finish, which is the moment it matters.

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

Yes, and whoever fills the form can use their own saved signature in it.

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