PyPDFForm-reducto 3.8.2.1

The Python library for PDF forms. Forked and maintained by Reducto AI.

PDF Form Automation Simplified – Create, Merge, Style, and Fill Forms Programmatically.

Important Announcement

Hello fellow Python developers!

Please read this article about the upcoming v4.0.0 release and official deprecations of some old APIs.

Happy hacking!

Introduction

Note: This is a fork of PyPDFForm maintained by Reducto AI.

PyPDFForm is a free and open source pure-Python 3 library for PDF form processing. It contains the essential functionalities needed to interact with PDF forms:

• Inspect what data a PDF form needs to be filled with.
• Fill a PDF form by simply creating a Python dictionary.
• Create form fields on a PDF.

It also supports other common utilities such as extracting pages and merging multiple PDFs together.

Installing

Install using pip:

pip install PyPDFForm-reducto

Quick Example

A sample PDF form can be found here. Download it and try:

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 the above code snippet you can find output.pdf at the location you specified, and it should look like this.

Documentation

The official documentation can be found on the GitHub page of this repository.

Other Resources

Chicago Python User Group - Dec 14, 2023