Life Admin & HomeDone with Claude Code
Fill out PDF forms like a W-9 from saved personal details
A Claude Code skill fills PDF forms from supplied details, saves the file and remembers reusable info; flat scanned PDFs are a limitation.
- What They Did
- Dave Swift put a blank W-9 in a folder and had Claude Code list the form fields. He then gave it his details, and it wrote a short script that filled the fields and saved a new PDF. He later turned the repeated steps into a skill. The skill asks for missing info, offers to remember reusable details, matches differently named fields, and flattens the result.
- How It Went
- Three W-9s came out in about thirty seconds in a batch run. Flat scanned PDFs are slow, because text has to be overlaid by coordinates with repeated manual nudging. The skill-building walkthrough is paywalled.
- Worth Knowing
- Ask senders for the fillable version of a form, since flat PDFs can cost roughly twenty minutes of position tweaking, and open the finished file yourself to check it.
Try it yourself with Claude Code
Fill out the PDF form at [file path] using my details: [name, address, tax ID, other details]. Save the completed copy as a new file next to the original, and remember the reusable details for future forms. If the PDF is flat or scanned and cannot be filled, tell me instead of guessing, and do not send or submit the form.