pdfjinja 0.0.3

Use jinja templates to fill and sign pdf forms.

Use jinja templates to fill and sign PDF forms.

You would like to fill out a PDF form using data from an external source such as a database or an excel file. Use a PDF editing software to edit the form. Use the tooltip field to specifiy a jinja template.

Dependencies

OSX:

brew install pdftk libtiff libjpeg webp little-cms2

Ubuntu:

apt-get install python-dev python-pip libtiff5-dev libjpeg8-dev \
    zlib1g-dev libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.6-dev \
    tk8.6-dev python-tk pdftk libmagickwand-dev

Installation

You can install pdfjinja with pip:

$ pip install pdfjinja
$ pdfjinja -h

Usage:

Command Line:

$ pdfjinja -j input.json form.pdf filled.pdf

Python:

from pdfjinja import PdfJinja

pdfjinja = PdfJinja('form.pdf')
pdfout = pdfjinja(dict(firstName='Faye', lastName='Valentine'))
pdfout.write(open('filled.pdf', 'wb'))

If you are using this with Flask as a webserver:

from flask import current_app
pdfjinja = PdfJinja('form.pdf', current_app.jinja_env)

See examples/sample.form and examples/sample.json.