How to enumerate PDF Form Field Values in Python

I’m about to show you an incredible shortcut method for determining your form field values for a PDF with Python. Here we go.

Diving straight in, we have our installation. We can handle this with pip install, like so:

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

Now it’s time to create our API function call for edit_pdf_get_form_fields. Here’s what that should look like:

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_convert_api_client
from cloudmersive_convert_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.EditPdfApi(cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
input_file = '/path/to/file' # file | Input file to perform the operation on.
try:
# Gets PDF Form fields and values
api_response = api_instance.edit_pdf_get_form_fields(input_file)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling EditPdfApi->edit_pdf_get_form_fields: %s\n" % e)

And there you have our setup wrapped up nicely. We can now use edit_pdf_get_form_fields to return the form fields that we need. From there, we can use our return to structure our input for edit_pdf_set_form_fields, which does exactly what it sounds like it would. Done!