There’s quite a few solutions for typing on PDFs (such as listed in the answers to PDF – What software to fill-out/fill-in a PDF form?), but I have a parallel question which I’ve wondered about off-and-on for a couple of years now.
Is there a way to fill up PDF forms which use boxes such that each character is in a box. Most of these are scanned or re-created versions of old printed-out forms (e.g. all the banks in my country have these), and it’s currently way more work to use some software to type one character, press spacebar a few times to move the cursor to the next box, and repeat than just to print the thing out, fill it up by hand, and take a picture or scan it.
Here’s some bad ASCII art (hand-made) showing what I mean.
|--------------------------------------------------------| | _ _ _ _ | | Please fill in your birth year: | || || || | | | - - - - | |--------------------------------------------------------|Very laborious using a typical PDF app to type over it, you’d need to align every character. Surely this isn’t a niche area, and there’s a software method to automatically fill in each box?
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