To feed any construction management application, large volumes of data is to be collected from project site. A major chunk of organisations still uses manual methods for data collection. With latest innovations in hand-held devices and portable file formats, instead of feeding the data from paper documents it is possible to capture this data directly into the application using digital forms. 

A digital form, in simple terms, is a digitized or electronic version of a paper form, that eliminates the time-consuming and inefficient process of manual data collection and communication. 

Digital forms can be created using different applications available in the market. SmartProject accelerates the process of paperless field data management by providing smooth mapping of data from PDF forms to document properties in SmartProject using pre-defined templates. These templates can be customized to include the form fields and options that are required by the company.

Option Document Templates in the Masters will help in creating and managing PDF templates.

Figure: Managing PDF templates

For more information on creating and managing templates see Managing Digital Forms.