PyPDFForm 5.0.1

The Python library for PDF forms.

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

Introduction

PyPDFForm is a Python 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

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

• (WIP) Video Tutorials
• Chicago Python User Group - Dec 14, 2023

Star History

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