arman-h/batch_fill_pdfs

Batch fill PDFs based on csv file data

Task: batch fill PDFs based on csv file data

Tools: PDFescape is used to create and name fields to be filled out in PDF

http://www.pdfescape.com/

PDFtk is a PDF toolkit that is used to populate the fields

https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/

The download link on the website for MacOS is buggy Use updated link below for download

https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk_server-2.02-mac_osx-10.11-setup.pkg

fdf files contain the field data used to populate PDFs fdfgen is used to generate the fdf file

https://github.com/ccnmtl/fdfgen

Resources:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1890570/how-can-i-auto-populate-a-pdf-form-in-django-python

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10476265/batch-fill-pdf-forms-from-python-or-bash