Not sure where to start? Got an old paper or Word form?
Describe what you need and FormGenius builds it, or upload the Word document, PDF, or scanned form you already have and convert it into an accessible form automatically. Either way, you never rebuild from scratch — or trade away accessibility to save the time.
Moving to FormGenius makes sense in theory, you know your forms are going to be accessible, submission from webforms or PDF forms that have been emailed in can all be stored in one place and many other reasons. But when you already have a bunch of forms in .docx or .pdf file formats or even just some old scanned or paper forms, maybe a form you drew on the back of a napkin, it can be daunting and bit of a pain to have to recreate those existing forms in a new platform.
Well, fret no longer, FormGenius can now take care of that for you. AI Generate turns your description into a complete, accessible form. Document Import takes the form you already have — Word, fillable PDF, scanned, or even photographed — and converts it into an accessible FormGenius form you can edit on the canvas. Not to toot our own whistle or anything because yes, everyone is doing AI forms from PDF or Word but they aren't doing it like we are. And they don't have accessibility as an integral part of the build (and at the time of writing, they're all a lot more expensive).
Accessibility comes as standard
Lots of form builders have an AI button now, and plenty of tools can open a PDF. What's harder to find is one that also makes sure the result is properly accessible, with a sensible heading structure, real labels tied to their fields, a logical reading and tab order, and alt text on the images.
That's the part we care about most. Whether you generate a form from a description or import one you already have, it comes out with the same accessibility built in as a form you'd build by hand in FormGenius.
Accessibility you don't have to think about
Every form comes out to the same standard, whether you build it by hand, generate it, or import it: PDF/UA tagging, a proper heading structure, real labels, and a checked tab order, all included rather than something you add on later.
AI Generate: describe it, get a form
Open New Form, then AI Generate, and describe what you need, who the form is for and what it should collect. FormGenius builds you a complete set of fields, sensibly grouped and with a proper heading structure, ready to look over on the canvas.
Describe the form
Something like: "A volunteer sign-up form for a community food bank, collecting contact details, availability, and any food handling certificates." You don't have to list every field, FormGenius will add the ones a form like that would usually ask for.
Review on the canvas
You land straight in the editor with a complete, accessible form. Change labels, add or remove fields, restyle it however you like. It's a normal FormGenius project from the moment it's made.
Publish or export
Export it as a tagged, fillable PDF, or publish it as a live WCAG 2.2 AA web form, exactly like any other form you build.
There's no original document when you generate a form from scratch, so if you ask for something like a logo, it comes in as a placeholder at roughly the right size, ready for you to drop your real image in once you're on the canvas.
Document Import: bring across what you already have
Open New Form, then Import Document, and give it a .DOCX or any .PDF, whether that's a fillable one, a scan, or a photo of a paper form. (Pro-tip - if you have a form in any other format, open it, hit print and choose 'Print to PDF' then just import that .pdf to FormGenius)
The old way
Open the original in Word or Acrobat, recreate every field by hand in a new tool, guess which checkbox rows were really one question, redo the heading structure from scratch, and hope you didn't miss the consent paragraph on page 6.
With Document Import
Upload the file. You land in the editor with every field, section and image already mapped, plus a plain summary of anything worth a second look, like a row of checkboxes that's really a single choice question.
We also tell you what was changed and why. If your original had a row of separate checkboxes that really meant "pick one", it gets turned into a proper single choice field, and the summary explains that, so nothing about your form changes without you knowing.
Scanned and photographed forms work too
You don't need a tidy digital file. A photo of a paper form, or a flat scan with no real text in it at all, goes through the same process, the FormGenius FormBuilder engine will take care of it.
What this saves you
The obvious saving is the rebuild. Hours of recreating a form field by field turns into a few minutes of uploading it or describing it. The saving people tend to forget is the accessibility work that usually comes afterwards. A proper heading structure, real alt text, a tab order somebody has actually checked, that all takes time and a bit of know-how, and it's often the part that gets rushed or dropped when a form is needed quickly.
Because both AI Generate and Document Import produce forms to the same standard as every form made by hand in FormGenius, that work isn't a separate job and it isn't charged as one. It just happens as part of making the form. The kind of accessibility that used to be an expensive extra is simply included.
The free tier gives you the full editor and Accessibility Wizard, with no account needed. AI Generate and Document Import are available on the Growth and Business plans.
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