WebForms SmartPasteButton Overview
The Telerik WebForms SmartPasteButton is an AI-powered component that extracts structured data from clipboard content and automatically fills form fields. When users paste unstructured text from emails, documents, or other sources, the SmartPasteButton sends the content to an AI service, which processes the text and returns structured field values that are intelligently distributed to relevant form fields. This component is an ASP.NET WebForms wrapper over the Kendo UI SmartPasteButton widget.

The SmartPasteButton works with regular HTML forms using standard input elements (text, email, tel, etc.) as well as ASP.NET AJAX components, providing an intelligent way to reduce manual data entry and improve form completion efficiency.
To see the SmartPasteButton in action, you can check out the live examples at WebForms SmartPasteButton demos.
How It Works
The component follows this workflow:
- Retrieves the active form fields - Automatically detects form controls within its form context
- Shapes the data into FormFields - Creates metadata that will be passed to the AI Service
- AI Service processes the data - Returns FieldValues which are intelligently distributed to relevant fields