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by jonaldomo 3175 days ago
Looks good. I think some real life use cases would help on the sales site.

So the use case is you have a company that only accepts PDFs as an input and you have a digital data set that you need to get each individual row into one PDF?

How do you handle signatures?

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Not OP but one use case is charitable grants. I made an app for a homeless agency my girlfriend used to work at for automatically filling out PDFs. They spent an inordinate amount of time filling out grant application PDFs, most of which requested essentially the same info. We made a simple WPF app that let them tag each field on the PDF as a particular info type (e.g. address, or address line 1, or statement of organization's purpose) then click a button to autofill. They keep all the data in a single underlying spreadsheet for convenience and just update that, rather than treating each of their hundreds of applications as bespoke.

Also I work at an accounting firm and we have a home grown solution that does precisely this for all of the standard IRS forms we fill out. For a larger firm like mine, we can afford to have someone code the solution in house, but for smaller firms or for in-house accounting departments, this could be worthwhile, depending on the price point.

Thanks! Totally agree, there's a lot of room for improvement on the landing page.

That use case sounds right. I've mainly been thinking about tax and immigration forms, or filling out financial and legal documents, etc.

There's no special field type for signatures at the moment, but you can upload a signature image, or use a text field with a handwriting font (Dancing Script [1]).

I will probably add the signature_pad [2] library to the online forms in the near future, and will add a special "signature" type. There might also be a new flow where you can request a signature via the API, and we'll send an email to the person who needs to sign the document.

(I actually just need to get a few more customers first, so that I'm building something that people need.)

[1] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Dancing+Script

[2] https://github.com/szimek/signature_pad