How to edit a editable pdf form using Javascript or Java

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I want to develop a kind of software or website to help people fill in a editable pdf form. The user only need to fill in some information and I will collect the information and dynamically fill into the editable pdf form. What kind of Jar or library I need to use in this project? Thanks.

vainolo · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-26 15:40:05Z

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I have used Apache PDFBox for some small toy projects and it is very easy to use and works pretty well (at least in text extraction). I tried using iTextPDF but it didn't handle columns well.

Regarding forms, check out PDFBook's cookbook where there is an example on how to set the value of a form field in a PDF.

answered Feb 26, 2013 at 15:40

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