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pdf_form

A library for programatically filling out pdf forms

4 releases (breaking)

0.4.0 Sep 28, 2020
0.3.0 Sep 25, 2020
0.2.0 Jun 9, 2018
0.1.0 Mar 25, 2018

#1549 in Text processing

MIT license

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Fill PDF Forms

A library to programatically identify and fill out PDF forms

Example Code

  • Read a PDF and discover the form fields
extern crate pdf_form;
use pdf_form::{Form, FieldType};

// Load the pdf into a form from a path
let form = Form::load("path/to/pdf").unwrap();
// Get all types of the form fields (e.g. Text, Radio, etc) in a Vector
let field_types = form.get_all_types();
// Print the types
for type in field_types {
    println!("{:?}", type);
};

  • Write to the form fields
extern crate pdf_form;
use pdf_form::{Form, FieldState};

// Load the pdf into a form from a path
let mut form = Form::load("path/to/pdf").unwrap();
form.set_text(0, String::from("filling the field"));
form.save("path/to/new/pdf");

Dependencies

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