The form you have filled forty times

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Every supplier sends their own onboarding form and every one of them wants the same six facts about your company. The Edit node reads the blank form, finds the gaps itself, writes your values into them and returns a filled PDF. You map nothing by hand.

The blank form

New Supplier Onboarding

→

The filled PDF

Gotham

NodesCredits60 per pageYou get

The workflow

Values come from two places: free-text instructions on the node, and reference documents you upload to the workflow once, so every run fills from your standing data without retyping it.

{
  "name": "Fill the onboarding form",
  "description": "Hand it a blank form, get the filled PDF back",
  "nodes": [
    { "id": "parse_1", "type": "parse" },
    {
      "id": "edit_1",
      "type": "edit",
      "instructions": "Company name: Wayne Enterprises, Inc.; VAT number: ESB12345678; City: Gotham"
    }
  ],
  "edges": [{ "source": "parse_1", "target": "edit_1" }]
}

import os

from anyformat.sdk import Client

client = Client(api_key=os.environ["ANYFORMAT_API_KEY"])

workflow = (
    client.workflow("Fill the onboarding form", "Hand it a blank form, get the filled PDF back")
    .parse()
    .edit(instructions="Company name: Wayne Enterprises, Inc.; VAT number: ESB12345678; City: Gotham")
    .create()
)

// The TypeScript builder has no edit() method yet. Send the node in the
// workflow's `nodes` array with an edge from the Parse node.
const nodes = [
  { id: "parse_1", type: "parse" },
  {
    id: "edit_1",
    type: "edit",
    instructions: "Company name: Wayne Enterprises, Inc.; VAT number: ESB12345678; City: Gotham",
  },
];
const edges = [{ source: "parse_1", target: "edit_1" }];

To fill from standing data instead of a string, upload a company profile once and pass reference_document_ids. The node reads the answers out of it.

Response

The run returns an edits entry per file. Each one lists every form field the node found on the page, with the label it read, the box it sits in, and the value written into it. unmatched_instructions is the list of things you asked for that had nowhere to go, and it is the first thing to read when a form comes back looking wrong.

{
  "status": "processed",
  "results": {
    "edits": [
      {
        "file_id": "06a95798-8e0a-741a-8000-bf69b42aa123",
        "file_name": "blank_onboarding_form.pdf",
        "fields": [
          {
            "form_field_id": "p1_f0",
            "label": "Company name:",
            "kind": "text",
            "state": "empty",
            "page": 1,
            "bbox": { "x0": 0.375, "x1": 0.882, "y0": 0.217, "y1": 0.257 },
            "value": "Wayne Enterprises, Inc.",
            "confidence": 100
          },
          {
            "form_field_id": "p1_f1",
            "label": "VAT number:",
            "kind": "text",
            "state": "empty",
            "page": 1,
            "bbox": { "x0": 0.375, "x1": 0.882, "y0": 0.33, "y1": 0.371 },
            "value": "ESB12345678",
            "confidence": 100
          },
          {
            "form_field_id": "p1_f2",
            "label": "City:",
            "kind": "text",
            "state": "empty",
            "page": 1,
            "bbox": { "x0": 0.375, "x1": 0.882, "y0": 0.444, "y1": 0.485 },
            "value": "Gotham",
            "confidence": 100
          }
        ],
        "unmatched_instructions": [],
        "download_url": "https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/static.anyformat.ai/customers/org/...?Signature=...&Expires=..."
      }
    ]
  }
}

state describes the field on the form you sent, so empty means the node found a blank waiting to be filled. confidence is 100 because the node wrote the value rather than reading it: it is not a claim about the form, and it is not comparable to an extraction confidence. download_url is a presigned link and it expires. Fetch the PDF when you read the run, or store it yourself.

When it goes wrong

A value you asked for is missing from the PDF. Read unmatched_instructions. An instruction with no matching field on the form lands there instead of being written somewhere arbitrary, which is the behaviour you want. The node found fewer fields than the form has. It detects fillable gaps from the parsed document, so a form that is a flat scan with printed rules gives it less to work with than a born-digital one. Parse the difficult ones on the agentic tier first. The link 404s an hour later. download_url is presigned and short-lived. Download it in the same pass that reads the run. You want the values, not the PDF. Then you want Extract. Edit is for handing a completed document back to someone.

Examples

Read the page

Messy piles

Money and compliance

At scale

The form you have filled forty times

The workflow

Response

When it goes wrong

Next steps

Edit

Outputs

​The workflow

​Response

​When it goes wrong

​Next steps

Edit

Outputs

The workflow

Response

When it goes wrong

Next steps