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Don’t Complicate Online Education and Administration with PDF Forms

PDF forms are incompatible with HTML. Therefore, students may need to install third-party software to fill in academic PDF forms, or print out and complete by hand.

Administrators face another issue when collecting student data: submitted PDF form data cannot be directly retreived from the browser.

Convert Fillable PDF Academic Forms into HTML Forms

FormVu is an SDK for developers to convert fillable PDF forms into HTML forms

HTMLConversionOptions conversionOptions = new HTMLConversionOptions();
// Set conversion options here e.g. conversionOptions.setImageScale(1.2f);

FormViewerOptions viewerOptions = new FormViewerOptions();
// Set FormViewer options here e.g. viewerOptions.setEnableFDFJavaScript(true);

File input = new File("C:/MyDocument.pdf");
File output = new File("C:/MyOutputDirectory/");

PDFtoHTML5Converter converter = new PDFtoHTML5Converter(input, output, conversionOptions, viewerOptions);

try {
    converter.convert();
} catch (PdfException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}
java -Xmx512M -jar formvu.jar /inputDirectory/ /outputDirectory/

# Or add in custom settings to adjust the output to your preference
java -Dorg.jpedal.pdf2html.exampleSettingOne=<value> -Dorg.jpedal.pdf2html.exampleSettingTwo=<value> -Xmx512M -jar formvu.jar /inputDirectory/ /outputDirectory/
<?php
// PHP is one of the many languages we support for the web service. Check our support pages to see the full extent

require_once __DIR__ . "/PATH/TO/vendor/autoload.php";

use IDRsolutions\IDRCloudClient;

$endpoint = "https://cloud.idrsolutions.com/cloud/" . IDRCloudClient::INPUT_FORMVU;
$parameters = array(
    //'token' => 'Token', // Required only when connecting to the IDRsolutions trial and cloud subscription service
    'input' => IDRCloudClient::INPUT_UPLOAD,
    'file' => __DIR__ . 'path/to/file.pdf'
);

$results = IDRCloudClient::convert(array(
    'endpoint' => $endpoint,
    'parameters' => $parameters
));

IDRCloudClient::downloadOutput($results, __DIR__ . '/');

echo $results['downloadUrl'];

What Can FormVu Help Educational Organizations Achieve?

Simplify Academic Form Access and Submission

HTML forms can be used across all devices (desktops, tablets, phones) without needing a PDF reader. Filling out a web-based form is quicker and more user-friendly compared to downloading, printing, scanning, or uploading PDFs.

With FormVu, more students, parents, and staff can easily fill out forms online.

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Simplify Academic Form Access and Submission

More Efficient Student Data Collection

Extracting data from academic forms may be an issue since scripts in PDFs can be quite difficult to work with.

With FormVu, students can fill in HTML forms converted from PDF forms, then submit to a URL. Developers can directly get the data from the backend without having to come up with another solution.

Easier Integration with E-Learning Platform

Compared to native HTML forms, PDF forms are trickier to integrate into web applications.

With FormVu, educational organizations can integrate the converted HTML forms into a web application workflow while retaining all their interaction and functionality as well as the look of original PDF forms. Here's an example video of how we integrate it into our website.

Example PDF Forms Converted into HTML

All of these examples have been converted with FormVu

AcroForm Example Conversions

XFA Example Conversions

Developer-Focused Solution

Simple Technical Documents

FormVu is run and marketed by a group of geeks instead of sales people. We like to keep everything super simple and straightforward.

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Fast Support Responses

Our support channels are monitored by our developers, so that the communications are made easily. You can get in touch with us via Discord or online support service and receive response quickly.

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Advanced Data Processing

Developers are expected to self-host the output file and you can customize how data is submitted (e.g. as HTML form, JSON, XML, or even as a PDF). FormVu also runs without making external calls, giving you full control of your data.

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Convert Fillable PDF Academic Forms into HTML Forms

Convert from Web

Try FormVu from the web browser. Upload your document, wait for the conversion to finish and then download the output!
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Convert from Command Line

The most popular way to run FormVu! Download the software and convert files in bulk locally from the command line.
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Convert from Cloud API

FormVu provides a simple REST API to convert from any language including PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Python and more.
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