Use jinja templates to fill and sign PDF forms.
You would like to fill out a PDF form using data from an external source such as a database or an excel file. Use a PDF editing software to edit the form. Use the tooltip field to specifiy a jinja template.
Dependencies
OSX:
brew install pdftk libtiff libjpeg webp little-cms2
Ubuntu:
apt-get install python-dev python-pip libtiff5-dev libjpeg8-dev \
zlib1g-dev libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.6-dev \
tk8.6-dev python-tk pdftk libmagickwand-dev
Installation
You can install pdfjinja with pip:
$ pip install pdfjinja
$ pdfjinja -h
Usage:
Command Line:
$ pdfjinja -j input.json form.pdf filled.pdf
Python:
from pdfjinja import PdfJinja
pdfjinja = PdfJinja('form.pdf')
pdfout = pdfjinja(dict(firstName='Faye', lastName='Valentine'))
pdfout.write(open('filled.pdf', 'wb'))
If you are using this with Flask as a webserver:
from flask import current_app
pdfjinja = PdfJinja('form.pdf', current_app.jinja_env)
See examples/sample.form and examples/sample.json.