How to improve automatic field detection accuracy?

Hi Meenakshi,

Thanks for following up so quickly. 

My workflow was very basic. The word document contains a simple table with both blank cells and some cells with text. I saved as a pdf, opened the pdf in Adobe, and then edited it to be a fillable form (all default settings, did not select the box that for "requires signatures"). Adobe's automatic field detection generated text fields in most of the blank cells, but 6 of the blank cells shown in the previous screenshot did not get a field generated.

This checklist is one of many done the same way. Some checklists worked perfectly while others like this one got some wrong, leaving me to manually add the last few fields. It's typically the more complex tables that get it wrong and the tables which have more consistent patterns in the blank cells have fields generated correctly more often. So I'm after both improved accuracy of field detection and/or easier formatting of manually created form fields, where a snap fit would work much better than inputting the left/right/top/bottom position data in field properties, which takes heaps of time for multiple fields.

Note, the word document formatting assists the accuracy somewhat. I purposely used solid black borders, grey fill and "---" text in some cells that I didn't want form fields generated.

Cheers

Troy