DocsCorp has announced an upgrade release of its pdfDocs formFiller product, originally developed to overcome an Adobe shortcoming by allowing users to save PDF forms to any location.

In addition to entering data into the form, users can email, print or save and profile the form directly into a document management system such as Autonomy iManage, NetDocuments, Open Text eDOCS, DOCS Open and Worldox.

David Woolstencroft, DocsCorp President of Sales, Marketing and Strategy, said “despite the fact that millions of business forms are distributed or posted to the web on a daily basis, businesses have too few choices when it comes to filling in and saving PDF forms. For example, the free Adobe Reader, which sits on practically every desktop, does not allow you to save data to a PDF form, while the high cost of Adobe Acrobat as a filler application makes this a prohibitive solution.”

The formFiller 2.1 release enables users to interact with online forms more efficiently and more effectively. The user does not have to download the form to complete and save it. Instead, a simple right-click on a PDF form link on any Web site will open the form in the pdfDocs formFiller application.

Once users complete the form, they have a number of options available to them: email the completed form to a colleague as part of a workflow process; save it to a local or network drive; or profile it into a document management system directly from the web.

“Our formFiller application provides businesses with two very obvious benefits,” continues Woolstencroft.

“Businesses no longer have to download and save business-critical forms from the web. They can simply link to the form on the web, which can be opened up in formFiller. This will save time, and it will also eliminate the risk that offline forms become obsolete when the online form is updated for some reason,” concluded Woolstencroft.

Another significant enhancement in the formFiller 2.1 release centers on integration with Internet Explorer. When a PDF form is opened in IE, users can open the form in any of the other pdfDocs products by clicking on the appropriate button on the pdfDocs ‘launchBar’.

For example, click on the pdfDocs Desktop button and the form will open in that application. Users are then free to edit the form, insert form fields, redact information as well as combine it with other documents. Click on the compareDocs button and the form will load directly into the compareDocs interface. Users can then compare the online form with a form on their local drive, network or document management system for differences.

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