Paperless office automation

In this study, a system has been designed and implemented that allows to serve PDF forms over a web site, enable users to fill forms and send form data over internet. The system gives advantage of saving and serving forms in PDF, makes office system paperless, and also allows users to digitally sign PDF documents and signature control. On the server side Windows 2000 server installed with Active Directory, IIS (Internet Information Server), Certificate Server (Root CA) used to create and serve digital signatures. PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) used to develop a web site which consists of administrator side and user side. Data is stored in a MySQL database. PDF templates stored in the web directory. Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional used to create PDF forms and to convert existing forms in other formats to PDF. php-fdf functions used to manage PDF forms data. Keywords: Paperless Office Automation, Portable Document Format (PDF), Fillable PDF, Forms Data Format (FDF), Digital Signature, internet based paperless office system