Ask HN: Tools for Writing to PDFs?

7 pointsmichaelmarkell3 comments

I have a large number of PDF forms (think government applications) that I need to write data into. Right now we are doing it by hand, but I would love to find a tool that allows us to 1. Map some sort of schema to a PDF 2. On a POST request, generate a new PDF via the POST data and the mapping

Any recommendations for how to solve this?

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This article http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/05/22/filling-pdf-for... mentions pdfforms https://pypi.org/project/pdfforms/ which uses pdftk to fill forms.

Thanks for the suggestion! Seems like pdftk is quite outdated and doesn't work on latest OSx, so I'm going to explore other options for now

I used this a while back (https://github.com/galkahana/HummusJS) and it worked quite well. While the support has ended, I think it should still work.

Worth a try. HTH

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