<story><title>Show HN: PDF Otter – Fill in PDFs Online and API</title><url>https://www.pdfotter.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CGamesPlay</author><text>I work at a company that has a pretty comprehensive suite of PDF templates we fill out, so if you want some feedback from someone who would have been a perfect customer 3 years ago:&lt;p&gt;The biggest thing that costs us time is schema validation. We ended up building a tool that rejects uploads if the text fields don&amp;#x27;t match, or if you forget to include a radio option, etc. It also has &amp;quot;recommended&amp;quot; fields which issue warnings if they are not implemented.&lt;p&gt;Radio options, checkboxes, and images (for signatures) would be a welcome addition that I didn&amp;#x27;t see in the editor.&lt;p&gt;The documentation &amp;#x2F; online demo doesn&amp;#x27;t make it clear how I would go from fields -&amp;gt; API access (because how do I name the fields?).&lt;p&gt;[append]&lt;p&gt;An API endpoint to get the unfilled PDF template would also be good, especially if bundled with a client library that handled the call to pdftk. Some of our documents are HIPAA and I don&amp;#x27;t want to deal with having the client data leave our machines.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: PDF Otter – Fill in PDFs Online and API</title><url>https://www.pdfotter.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iloveluce</author><text>We (Quiki YC W17) are currently using Otter to make our entire contract&amp;#x2F;agreement process self service, and it&amp;#x27;s been great. I can answer any questions from a customer perspective.</text></comment>