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pdf-form-utils

1.0.4 • Public • Published

PDF Form Utils for Node.js

A node.js toolkit that wraps PDFTk to expose two essential utilities - generating a list of form fields in a pdf form and filling a pdf form using a JS object.

NPM

Environment

  • You must have pdftk binary in your $PATH
  • Requires Node.js >= 8.11.0

Usage example of reading form Fields

const { getFields } = require("pdf-form-utils")
 
console.log(getFields(sourcePath)) // path.resolve recommended for sourcePath

Usage example of filling a PDF form with Express

const fs = require("fs")
const app = require("express")()
const { generatePDF } = require("pdf-form-utils")
 
app.get('/form', (req, res, next) => {
  generatePDF(data, sourcePath, destinationPath, err => {
    if (err) next(err)
    else {
      res.contentType('application/pdf')
      res.download(destinationPath, 'form.filled.pdf', err => {
        if (err) next(err)
        fs.unlinkSync(destinationPath) // Delete the temporary file
      })
    }
  })
})

Acknowledgements

For JS-to-FDF transform: utf8-fdf-generator

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npm i pdf-form-utils

Repository

github.com/uptickr/pdf-form-utils

Homepage

github.com/uptickr/pdf-form-utils#readme

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Version

1.0.4

License

MIT

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