PDF forms that submit via html on survey site?

Report · Feb 05, 2016

I'd like to use a PDF form that, once filled out, can be submitted online. Someone else has set up a surveymonkey survey to collect the same data that will be collected via the PDF form. I know that I can use a PDF form to submit via HTML, but I don't know if it is possible to use the surveymonkey form to collect the PDF form data...? Has anyone else done something similar?

Report · May 25, 2025

I'd like to use a PDF form that, once filled out, can be submitted online. Someone else has set up a surveymonkey survey to collect the same data that will be collected via the PDF form. I know that I can use a PDF form to submit via HTML, but I don't know if it is possible to use the surveymonkey form to collect the PDF form data...? Has anyone else done something similar?
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By kschubert@cornellpump.com

Directly submitting data from a filled PDF form to a SurveyMonkey survey is **not natively supported**. SurveyMonkey's forms are web-based, and its API is for developers to retrieve or manage data, not for live external submissions. Your options include **manual data entry** (inefficient), or, for automation, setting up a **custom backend script** that receives data from your PDF and then uses the SurveyMonkey API to submit it programmatically. Otherwise, you'll need to choose one platform for data collection: either use the **SurveyMonkey web form exclusively** or make your **PDF form submit to your own system**.