Our product automates pdf forms in a specific area (HR). From experience, the presence of form fields in the PDF will tell you that it is a form, but the conve

Our product automates pdf forms in a specific area (HR). From experience, the presence of form fields in the PDF will tell you that it is a form, but the converse is not always true. Plenty of people flatten their pdfs to remove the form fields, or maybe they were never there in the first place. I believe it's sometimes driven by misguided attempts to stop people from "hacking" (aka automating) them. Or pure incompetence. Some other things I would have like to see in the article would be some details of how they handled signatures. We do electronic signatures but it is certainly an area where accessibility comes into play.