jbarrow/commonforms

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

CommonForms is a Python package and CLI that uses trained object-detection models (FFDNet-S/L) to automatically detect form fields in a PDF and convert it into a fillable form. It also provides the CommonForms dataset and preprocessing code used to train the models.

Use cases

• convert a flat pdf into a fillable form
• auto-detect form fields in pdfs
• add text and signature fields to scanned forms
• batch make pdfs fillable from the command line
• train or evaluate form field detection models
• use FFDNet models for form field detection

When to choose

• you need to make non-interactive PDFs fillable without manual field placement
• you want a CLI or Python API for form field detection
• you need pretrained models or a dataset for form field detection research

When to avoid

• you only need to fill in PDFs that already have form fields
• you want a lightweight tool — the dependency footprint (torch, transformers) is large
• you need a permissively licensed dependency — the repo has no license

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machine-learning pdf ocr computer-vision pdf machine-learning developer-tools files python cli cross-platform form-field-detection fillable-forms object-detection pdf-forms ffdnet

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