PDF Form Filler Command Line

In paperless office work, they are using more and more digital PDF interactive forms instead of paper forms. So you may need a tool for filling PDF forms with plenty of common contents. So VeryPDF developed a program PDF Form Filler Command Line for you.

PDF Form Filler Command Line can be used to fill PDF forms with a FDF form datum file. In some situations, you have to fill many PDF forms that just have little different contents from each other. You can export the common PDF form data to a FDF file, and reuse the file to fill other PDF forms. To learn how to export form data from a form PDF, please see this article.

Because the functions and usages of the three different version programs for Windows, Mac OS and Linux are the same, this article will only present the usage of Windows version in filling PDF form with FDF file.

Download the package of PDF Form Filler Command Line and then unpack it to any directory you want. In the sub directory bin is the executable file of the program.

A basic usage rule is

pdftoolbox <input files> [options] <-outfile output>

The string field input is to specify an input file, and output is for specify a name to save the created file. Options are given in field of option.

Here is a usable example showing how to fill a form PDF with a FDF file.

pdftoolbox form.pdf -fillform data.fdf -outfile fiiled.pdf

By this command line, the form PDF form.pdf is filled by the data in FDF file data.fdf, and the filled form PDF is saved as filled.pdf. The option -fillform tells the program to fill form.

You will find that PDF Form Filler Command Line is not only a form filler tool when you see those examples of other options in sub directory of test in the program's directory.

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Features of VeryPDF PDF Form Filler Command Line.