Recognition and population of form fields in an electronic document

In a digital medium environment for processing electronic forms, a system for identifying fillable form field candidates and populating fillable form field candidates using prior responses to similar form fields, the system comprising:

• a storage;
• and
• a processor operatively coupled to the storage, the processor configured to execute instructions stored in the storage that when executed cause the processor to carry out a process comprising:
• receiving an electronic form having, encoded in the form, static text and a static form field for containing information specific to a given user of the electronic form;
• identifying a fillable form field candidate that corresponds to the static form field, wherein the identifying is based on a meaning of the static text corresponding to the static form field;
• identifying an attribute of the fillable form field candidate based on the static text;
• selecting a suggested response for populating the fillable form field candidate from among a plurality of prior responses to other form fields having at least one attribute in common with the identified attribute of the fillable form field candidate;
• and
• presenting the suggested response for subsequent acceptance or rejection by the given user.

A non-transient computer program product having instructions encoded thereon that when executed by one or more processors cause a process to be carried out, the process comprising:

• receiving an electronic form having, encoded in the form, static text and a static form field for containing information specific to a given user of the electronic form;
• identifying a fillable form field candidate that corresponds to the static form field, wherein the identifying is based on a meaning of the static text corresponding to the static form field;
• identifying an attribute of the fillable form field candidate based on the static text;
• selecting a suggested response for populating the fillable form field candidate from among a plurality of prior responses to other form fields having at least one attribute in common with the identified attribute of the fillable form field candidate;
• and
• presenting the suggested response for subsequent acceptance or rejection by the given user.