Chris Farber

Paperjet - Turn your PDFs into fillable forms in 2 seconds

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Chris Farber
Hey Product Hunters! Paperjet makes your life easier by allowing you to take your paperwork online. You can now upload and fill out forms in your browser in just seconds. Our machine learning algorithms will detect the fields for you making the form fillable immediately. To make things easier we've added signing as well as faxing to over 120 countries. We used to hate filling out forms and hope you guys enjoy trying out Paperjet. Let us know what you think, thanks!
Matt Tagg
Hey folks, Thanks for checking us out! In addition to Chris's comments, thought I'd quickly add this protip. It's possible to try out the site, without signing up straight away. To do this, simply click outside of the special Producthunt popup border. Doing so, will send it to a galaxy far far away... Plus, if you do signup later, then it will still apply the deal :)
Adam Marx
This is pretty cool. I totally could have used this back in college haha, but definitely still something I can see using for any of the number of forms I fill out during the week.
Chris Farber
@adammarx13 Hey Adam, thanks for the post. Yeah you never know when you'll get blindsided by a form! We hope the convenience alleviates some of the pain next time...
Toni Gemayel
This is an awesome product - Ive worked with PDF parsing before it and its a huge pain in the ass. Any plans on releasing an API?
Matt Tagg
@tonigemayel thanks toni. we actually have a customer testing out the API now. we hope to release publicly soon. shoot us a mail if you'd like to take it for a spin
Kirill Zubovsky
Isn't this the same as HelloSign, but with a lot less execution?
Chris Farber
@kirillzubovsky Hi Kirill, there are a few similar products out there (mostly surrounding the signing market) but we decided to focus on solving the completing of forms as quickly and easily as possible. Taking things slightly further to turn the terrible experience of completing forms into something users dont put off or delay. The users really enjoy the convenience of our field detection to tab through the fields completing them super fast especially companies generating forms on the Enterprise side. I hope that makes sense, let us know if you have any queries?
sri
We handle pdf generation/re-generation asynchronously to improve performance and also use some library features to not save meta data that is not relevant. This reduces size of pdf by 80% on disk. Good luck. Would love to know, how and what machine learning algorithms you use and where? Again just a very high level details. I don't want to know your secrets as it is your bread and butter ;) Coming back to feedback, If you make your UI more smooth, it will be a very good user experience and will help non-technical users. Thx Sri
Jason
Great idea. So tired of Photoshopping PDFs to fill them out. Excited to see how it works!
sri
Hi Chris, I worked with PDF libraries that takes the data and produces voter registration pdf files on large scale. The way we did it is to ask the voters to fill out the forms and then populate a pdf file and send them a link. The way you did it is impressive. However what may not work is, allowing users to remove some of the fields. Users may mistakenly remove some of the fields. Also, is there a way where you can force users to populate required fields? Basic question: So, you take a pdf file and make it look like a form and then allow users to fill it in and send them a completed pdf file in email. correct? Its not like you take any form and you generate the pdf file out of it? Thanks Sri
Chris Farber
@sridhar_kondoji Hi Sri, thanks for the post and compliment. For the first part of the launch we chose to keep the product super simple and have one main function - completing the form and emailing it back as fast as possible. This surrounds the recipient of a form using Paperjet to complete it very easily. In your example for voting, fields, data yes its all possible and we've been solving custom use cases for Enterprise. I'd love to hear more about it we'll mail you.