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Fill in PDF Form Fields using the Open Source i. Text. Sharp Dynamic Link Library. Article describing a quick and simple approach to programmatically completing a PDF document through use of the i. Text. Sharp DLLIntroduction. This article describes a quick and simple approach to programmatically completing a PDF document through the use of the i.
Text. Sharp DLL. The article also discusses how one might go about using the i. Text. Sharp DLL to discover and map the fields available within an existing PDF if the programmer has only the PDF but, does not have Adobe Designer or even a list of the names of the fields present in the PDF. Figure 1: Resulting PDF after Filling in Fields Programmaticallyi.
Text. Sharp is a C# port of a Java library written to support the creation and manipulation of PDF documents. The project is available for download through Source.
Forge. net. With the i. Text. Sharp DLL, it is possible to not only populate fields in an existing PDF document, but also to dynamically create PDFs. The examples here are limited to a description of the procedures associated with the completion of a PDF. The download will contain examples of PDF creation in both Visual Basic and C#. The examples contained herein are dependent upon the availability of the i. Text. Sharp DLL. Use the link provided previously in order to download the DLL locally to your development machine. In order to demonstrate filling out a PDF using the i.
Text. Sharp DLL, I downloaded a copy of the W- 4 PDF form from the IRS website. The form contains controls and may be filled out programmatically so it serves as a good example. PDF documents that do not contain controls, i. Of course, if you have access to Adobe tools (Adobe Professional, Adobe Designer), you can always create your own PDFs with controls or can add controls to existing PDFs. Further, although not demonstrated here, you can also use i. Text. Sharp to create a PDF document with embedded controls. Getting Started. In order to get started, fire up the Visual Studio 2.
IDE and open the attached solution. The solution consists of a single Windows Forms project with a single form.
I have also included a PDF that will be used for demonstration purposes; this form is the IRS W- 4 form completed by US taxpayers. However, any PDF with embedded controls (text boxes, check boxes, etc.) is fair game for this approach. Note that a reference to the i. Text. Sharp DLL has been included in the project. All of the project code is contained within the single Windows Form. The form itself contains only a docked textbox used to display all of the field names from an existing PDF document.
The completed PDF is generated and stored in the local file system; the PDF is not opened for display by the application. The application uses the existing PDF as a template and from that template, it creates and populates the new PDF. The template PDF itself is never populated and it is used only to define the format and contents of the completed PDF. Figure 2: Solution Explorer. The Code: Main Form.
As was previously mentioned, all of the code used in the demonstration application is contained entirely in the project’s single Windows Form. The following section will describe the contents of the code file. The file begins with the appropriate library imports needed to support the code. Note that the i. Text. Sharp libraries have been included into the project. The namespace and class declaration are in the default configuration.
System. using System. Collections. using System. Component. Model. System. Data. using System. Drawing. using System. Text. using System. Windows. Forms. using i.
Text. Sharp. using i. Text. Sharp. text. Text. Sharp. text. Text. Sharp. text. System. IO. namespace Pdf.
Generator. . During form load, two functions are called. Those functions are used to display all of the fields present in the template PDF and to create a new PDF populated with a set of field values. Form. 1(). . The field names are displayed in a text box contained in the application’s form.
List. Field. Names(). In order to map these fields to specific fields in the PDF, one need only copy this list and pass values to each of the fields to identify them. For example, if the form contains ten fields, setting the value (shown next) to a sequential number will result in the display of the numbers 1 to 1. One can then track that field value back to the field name using this list as the basis for the map.
Once the fields have been identified, the application can be written to pass the correct values to the related field. Checkbox controls may be a little more challenging to figure out. I tried passing several values to the checkbox controls before lining up a winner. In this example, I tried pass 0, 1, true, false, etc.
The process is simple enough. The first thing that happens is that that the template file and new file locations are defined and passed to string variables. Once the paths are defined, the code creates an instance of the PDF reader which is used to read the template file, and a PDF stamper which is used to fill in the form fields in the new file. Once the template and target files are set up, the last thing to do is create an instance of Acro. Fields, which is populated with all of the fields contained in the target PDF.
After the form fields have been captured, the rest of the code is used to fill in each field using the field’s Set. Field function. In this example, the first worksheet and the W- 4 itself are populated with meaningful values whilst the second worksheet is populated with sequential numbers that are then used to map those fields to their location on the PDF. After the PDF has been filled out, the application reads values from the PDF (the first and last names) in order to generate a message indicating that the W- 4 for this person was completed and stored. Fill. Form(). . This task is accomplished by setting the Form. Flattening value to true or false. If the value is set to false, the resulting PDF will be available for edits, but if the value is set to true, the PDF will be locked against further edits.
Once the form has been completed, the PDF stamper is closed and the function terminated. That wraps up the discussion of the form- based demo project. Summary. This article described an approach to populating a PDF document with values programmatically. This functionality was accomplished using the i. Text. Sharp DLL. Further, the article described an approach for mapping the fields contained in a PDF and may be useful if one is dealing with a PDF authored elsewhere and if the programmer does not have access to Adobe Professional or Adobe Designer.
The i. Text. Sharp library is a powerful DLL that supports authoring PDFs, as well as using them in the manner described in this document. However, when authoring a PDF, it seems that it would be far easier to produce a nice document using the visual environment made available through the use of Adobe tools. Having said that, if one is dynamically creating PDFs with variable content, the i. Text. Sharp library does provide the tools necessary to support such an effort.
With the library, one can create and populate a PDF on the fly. History. 22 January, 2. Original version posted Use Ctrl+Left/Right to switch messages, Ctrl+Up/Down to switch threads, Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right to switch pages.