Detect Forms Guide

Learn to build your own PDF form detection software and automatically identify form fields in PDF documents.

Remember that in order to use our Tool Guides, you need to have previous knowledge about the basics to processing a PDF with our REST API. We strongly recommend that you read the Processing a PDF guide before starting this one.

Basic form detection

The following example demonstrates how to analyze a PDF and detect the form fields it contains.

Create a task with the formsdetect tool, add the PDF, execute the task, and download the result.

Basic form detection

// Create a new Forms Detect task
$myTaskFormsDetect = $ilovepdf->newTask('formsdetect');
// Add a PDF file to the task
$file1 = $myTaskFormsDetect->addFile('path/to/file1_name.pdf');
// Execute the task
$myTaskFormsDetect->execute();
// Download the form detection result
$myTaskFormsDetect->download();

You can add one or more PDF files to the task. The API processes the uploaded documents and returns the form detection result.

The Forms Detect task does not require tool-specific options.