Introduction

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 a subset of form widgets 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").fill(
    {
        "test": "test_1",
        "check": True,
        "test_2": "test_2",
        "check_2": False,
        "test_3": "test_3",
        "check_3": True,
    },
)

with open("output.pdf", "wb+") as output:
    output.write(filled.read())

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