pypdftk

import pypdftk import os import tempfile # NOTE: You must have the 'pdftk' binary installed on your system. # You may also need to set the PDFTK_PATH environment variable if pdftk is not in your system's PATH. # For example: os.environ['PDFTK_PATH'] = '/usr/local/bin/pdftk' on macOS or '/usr/bin/pdftk' on Linux. # For Windows, it might be 'C:/Program Files (x86)/PDFtk/bin/pdftk.exe' # Create a dummy PDF file for demonstration (in a real scenario, this would be an existing PDF form) # This example can't create a fillable PDF, so it will demonstrate other functions. # We'll use get_num_pages and concat for a runnable example. # Create a dummy PDF file (simplified for quickstart, typically this would be a pre-existing PDF) # In a real scenario, you'd use an actual PDF path. dummy_pdf_content = b'%PDF-1.4\n1 0 obj<</Type/Catalog/Pages 2 0 R>>endobj 2 0 obj<</Type/Pages/Count 1/Kids[3 0 R]>>endobj 3 0 obj<</Type/Page/Parent 2 0 R/MediaBox[0 0 612 792]/Contents 4 0 R>>endobj 4 0 obj<</Length 16>>stream\nBT /F1 12 Tf 100 700 Td (Hello PyPDFtk!) Tj ET\nendstream\nendobj\nxref\n0 5\n0000000000 65535 f\n0000000009 00000 n\n0000000055 00000 n\n0000000107 00000 n\n0000000194 00000 n\ntrailer<</Size 5/Root 1 0 R>>startxref\n240\n%%EOF' with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=".pdf", delete=False) as f1: f1.write(dummy_pdf_content) pdf_path1 = f1.name with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=".pdf", delete=False) as f2: f2.write(dummy_pdf_content) pdf_path2 = f2.name try: # Get number of pages num_pages = pypdftk.get_num_pages(pdf_path1) print(f"Number of pages in {pdf_path1}: {num_pages}") # Concatenate two dummy PDFs output_concat_pdf = pypdftk.concat([pdf_path1, pdf_path2]) print(f"Concatenated PDFs to: {output_concat_pdf}") # Example of filling a form (requires a real fillable PDF and pdftk to be correctly configured) # To run this, replace 'path/to/model.pdf' with a path to an actual fillable PDF # and ensure PDFTK_PATH is correctly set. # datas = {'firstname': 'John', 'lastname': 'Doe'} # try: # filled_pdf = pypdftk.fill_form('path/to/model.pdf', datas) # print(f"Filled form saved to: {filled_pdf}") # except Exception as e: # print(f"Could not fill form (requires a real fillable PDF and pdftk setup): {e}") finally: # Clean up temporary files os.remove(pdf_path1) os.remove(pdf_path2) if 'output_concat_pdf' in locals() and os.path.exists(output_concat_pdf): os.remove(output_concat_pdf) # if 'filled_pdf' in locals() and os.path.exists(filled_pdf): # os.remove(filled_pdf)