| #! /usr/bin/python | |
| import os | |
| import pdfrw | |
| INVOICE_TEMPLATE_PATH = 'delay.pdf' | |
| INVOICE_OUTPUT_PATH = 'delay_pdfrw2.pdf' | |
| ANNOT_KEY = '/Annots' | |
| ANNOT_FIELD_KEY = '/T' | |
| ANNOT_VAL_KEY = '/V' | |
| ANNOT_RECT_KEY = '/Rect' | |
| SUBTYPE_KEY = '/Subtype' | |
| WIDGET_SUBTYPE_KEY = '/Widget' | |
| def write_fillable_pdf(input_pdf_path, output_pdf_path, data_dict): | |
| template_pdf = pdfrw.PdfReader(input_pdf_path) | |
| annotations = template_pdf.pages[0][ANNOT_KEY] | |
| for annotation in annotations: | |
| if annotation[SUBTYPE_KEY] == WIDGET_SUBTYPE_KEY: | |
| if annotation[ANNOT_FIELD_KEY]: | |
| annotation.update(pdfrw.PdfDict(AP='')) | |
| key = annotation[ANNOT_FIELD_KEY][1:-1] | |
| if key in data_dict.keys(): | |
| annotation.update( | |
| pdfrw.PdfDict(V='{}'.format(data_dict[key])) | |
| ) | |
| watermark = 'sign.pdf' | |
| wmark = pdfrw.PageMerge().add(pdfrw.PdfReader(watermark).pages[0])[0] | |
| page = template_pdf.pages[0] | |
| pdfrw.PageMerge(page).add(wmark, prepend=True).render() | |
| pdfrw.PdfWriter().write(output_pdf_path, template_pdf) | |
| data_dict = {'Student Name': 'asdf', | |
| 'Advisor Name': 'Prof. asdf ', | |
| 'Email Address': 'asdf', | |
| 'Date Submitted': '03 Jan 2019', | |
| 'Research Topic': 'asdf', | |
| 'Advisor': 'Prof. asdf', | |
| "Advisor's Nominee": 'Prof. asdf', | |
| "Student's Nominee": 'Prof. sadf', | |
| "Dean's Nominee": None, | |
| 'Month and Year': '09/2019', 'Rationale': "asdf", | |
| "Advisor's Comments": None} | |
| if __name__ == '__main__': | |
| write_fillable_pdf(INVOICE_TEMPLATE_PATH, INVOICE_OUTPUT_PATH, data_dict) | |
| ~ | |
| ~ |
NOTE: dictionary comes out as all one line. to get it into separate lines as above, use in vim
s/,/, \r/g
(\r inserts a new line)
| $ python | |
| from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader | |
| infile = 'delay.pdf' | |
| pdf_reader = PdfFileReader(open(infile, "rb")) | |
| dictionary = pdf_reader.getFormTextFields() # returns a python dictionary | |
| print(dictionary) | |
| {'Student Name': 'asdf', 'Advisor Name': 'Prof. asdf ', 'Email Address': 'asdf', 'Date Submitted': '03 Jan 2019', 'Research Topic': 'asdf', 'Advisor': 'Prof. asdf', "Advisor's Nominee": 'Prof. asdf', "Student's Nominee": 'Prof. sadf', "Dean's Nominee": None, 'Month and Year': '09/2019', 'Rationale': "asdf", "Advisor's Comments": None} | |