PDF Form Automation Simplified - Create, Inspect, Style, and Fill Forms in Python or from the Command Line.
Introduction
PyPDFForm is a Python library and command line tool for working with PDF forms. It provides Python APIs and CLI commands for creating, inspecting, updating, and filling forms, plus common PDF utilities.
With PyPDFForm, you can:
- Create PDF forms, form fields, and raw elements.
- Inspect form fields, metadata, and values.
- Update field styling, behavior, and scripts.
- Fill PDF forms.
- Extract pages and merge PDFs.
Installing
To use PyPDFForm as a Python library, install the base package with pip:
pip install PyPDFFormTo use the CLI, install PyPDFForm with the cli extra using pipx:
pipx install "PyPDFForm[cli]"Quick Example
!Check out the GitHub repository for a live demo if you can't see it here.The GIF above shows the CLI filling a PDF form. To try the same workflow with the Python library, download the sample PDF form and run:
from PyPDFForm import PdfWrapper
filled = PdfWrapper("sample_template.pdf", need_appearances=True).fill(
{
"test": "test_1",
"check": True,
"test_2": "test_2",
"check_2": False,
"test_3": "test_3",
"check_3": True,
},
)
filled.write("output.pdf")
After running this snippet, output.pdf will be written to the location you specified and should look like this.
Documentation
The official documentation can be found on the GitHub page of this repository.
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