How to Simplify the Process of Modernizing Your Legacy Forms
There are many benefits to improving your methods of data capture including, more accurate data capture, higher completion rates, lower turn around times and higher user satisfaction; luckily there is a way to simplify the process by leveraging the automated forms conversion service.
Modernizing your data capture can feel like a daunting task. There is a lot of time and effort to manually converting each document from a legacy format into a web based, mobile accessible format. Furthermore, ensuring that your new forms are meeting the accessibility standards for web-based correspondences adds extra development time and increases the time to market. To further complicate the matter most organizations do not know how many forms they have or how often the are used, complicating the process of prioritizing higher demand documents.
Although the process may seem overwhelming there are many benefits to improving your methods of data capture including, more accurate data capture, higher completion rates, lower turn around times and higher user satisfaction; luckily there is a way to simplify the process by leveraging the automated forms conversion service.
Batches of PDFs are pushed to the service automatically converting the form elements into their corresponding element types within Adobe’s adaptive form format, dynamically creating mobile ready web forms without having to manually recreate each form. Specifying a custom form template and/or a custom theme can ensure that the new web version of your legacy forms will match the look and feel that is expected for your organization. The automated form conversions service saves the manual effort to convert the legacy forms into web-based forms, applies appropriate patterns and validations on expected elements, groups common elements into reusable elements for future forms creations, and automatically creates a document of record for the newly created form.
There are some exercises that should be done before starting the process of running legacy forms through the conversion process, such as form consolidation and usage analysis, along with some testing and cleanup that should be completed after the forms have been modernized before pushing them into production. Utilizing the conversion service gains you the immediate benefits of faster time to market and reduced development costs, while also granting you long term benefits such as reduce maintenance costs and higher user satisfaction.
Learn more about modernizing your forms and workflow on our Forms Modernization page.