python-pdffiller 2.0.0

Interact with PDF by inspecting or filling it

python-pdffiller 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.

Installation

As of first version, python-pdffiller is compatible with Python 3.9+.

Use pip to install the latest stable version of python-pdffiller:

$ pip install --upgrade python-pdffiller

The current development version is available on both GitHub.com and can be installed directly from the git repository:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/sismicfr/pypdffiller.git

Bug reports

Please report bugs and feature requests at https://github.com/sismicfr/pypdffiller/issues.

Documentation

The full documentation for CLI and API is available at https://sismicfr.github.io/pypdffiller/

Build the docs

We use tox to manage our environment and build the documentation:

$ pip install tox
$ tox -e docs

Executable

In addition to the Python package, a standalone executable can be built using PyInstaller.

Build the executable

We use tox to manage our environment and build the executable:

$ pip install tox
$ tox -e installer

$ make exe

Contributing

For guidelines for contributing to python-pdffiller, refer to CONTRIBUTING.rst.