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Glad to see people building in the PDF space, which as a format is unfortunately both awful and ubiquitous. Are you planning to build any support for programmat
by dazh 3y ago
Glad to see people building in the PDF space, which as a format is unfortunately both awful and ubiquitous. Are you planning to build any support for programmatically filling out existing PDF forms? That's a huge pain point our product is facing that doesn't seem easy to solve.
- pedro120 3y agoYes, our focus is on programmatic interactions with PDFs, form filling is on our roadmap, alongside programmatic digital signature and many more.
- dazh 3y agoAmazing, is there anywhere I can follow along to find out when form filling will be available?
- pedro120 3y agoSure! Feel free to join our Discord, we post announcements as soon as new features are released. You can also ask for features, we prioritise these requests with enterprise customer's in our development roadmap.
- wonger_ 3y agoI'm facing that same pain point of programmatic PDF filling. I noodled around in the PDF format and learned it's a bit difficult to deal with fonts and formatting. But I think this client-side library works well enough, as a start: https://pdf-lib.js.org/#fill-form https://pdf-lib.js.org/#fill-form I've also heard of one paid API that I forgot but seemed to work well, and this related service https://www.jotform.com/ https://www.jotform.com/, and I also considered porting some server-side libraries to WASM. One day I'll collect all the libraries and findings in a blog post. Are you looking to programmatically fill any PDF form by detecting the fields? Or are you filling one known PDF template?
- kodt 3y agoYears ago I needed to programmatically fill PDFs and used this library to achieve it. Funny it has the same name as what you linked: https://www.pdflib.com/ https://www.pdflib.com/ It is a paid commercial product however.
- azmodeus 3y agoWhat are you looking for in programmatic pdf filling?
- nip 3y agoFor programmatic filling of PDFs, have a look at DocSpring: https://docspring.com https://docspring.com
- steveneo 3y agoFor programmatically filling, checkout https://platoforms.com https://platoforms.com. It even provides a API playground, https://www.platoforms.com/docs/advanced/api-playground/ https://www.platoforms.com/docs/advanced/api-playground/, super easy to test the API on your actual PDF form.