Could AI convert all the PDF forms on GOV.UK into web forms?
May 5, 2025
Last year I wrote about a tool I built that uses AI to generate GOV.UK styled web versions of PDF forms.
This is useful because web forms are more accessible, mobile friendly and smarter than document-based forms.
They reduce error rates and processing time and enable things like automation and identity verification.
In this update I’ll consider what it would be like to use the tool to convert all the document based forms on GOV.UK.
Source: Could AI convert all the PDF forms on GOV.UK into web forms?
Many jobs are full of exacting but time consuming tasks. Many sites have legacy content and forms that need to be modernised, but the process of doing can be extremely expensive and lengthy.
The UK’s digital service, gov.uk has such a task-modernising a large number of PDF based forms.
Here Tim Paul looks at using an LLM to do this task-does it work? What did he learn?
There are many uses of LLMs which are over hyped. Tasks like this in my experience are not.
