Autoform Filling Using Text from Optical Character Recognition and Metadata for Document Types

A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for processing a form. A form processing system comprising a computer system and a form manager. The form manager is located in the computer system, wherein the form manager receives a selection of a form from a client application in the computer system; fills a set of fields in the form to form a filled form using text obtained from optical character recognition performed on an image of a document using metadata that defines a relationship between the set of fields in the form and text for a document type of the document; and sends the filled form to the client application in the computer system.