Converting a paper form to online form, easiest way ?

Just wondering what you guys would recommend I use to convert a printed out multi page form to an online version. Ive got notepad and Dreamweaver but for forms they are both pretty crap.

Thanks

Scan 'em. That's given they are not watermarked in any way, because that is pain in the @$$ trying to get most of gov forms on the screen. But really, scan them and then use word to fill them out.

Erm, I want to bring them into HTML / PHP forms so users can fill them out online and submit them into a database, will teh Word Idea work ?

oh, that. Sorry then, I must have misunderstood your intentions.

There really isn't any way to automize this task - just get your favorite editor and start adding field by field.

Depending on your application you could convert the paper forms to a PDF document and have the users fill out the forms using acrobat reader. The user could then upload the form and you could read the PDF file and extract the data. But as far as making the form html from the paper I would have to agree with AlCapone.

Good Luck

I have just done this - well almost because my form was only a single page, but it should work with more pages also - using Ulead PhotoImpact v7.

Scan the paper form, cut in into pieces with PI7. Name every cutted piece that represents an input field with a unique name (just to find them in the HTML code that PI7 procudes). Have PI7 export the pic as web file. This would render the pic as an HTML table.
Get your favourite HTML editor and replace the IMG tags (those with the unique names) with form elements. Be sure to use css for sizing the fields.

Hope it works for you
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