README

PHP wrapper for PDFtk.

Inspired by Kevsoft.PDFtk and pypdftk.

Installation

To install, use composer:

composer require qdequippe/phpdftk

Requirements

• PDFtk Server installed (see below installation based on your OS)

Linux (Ubuntu)

See https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/pdftk (similar on other distributions).

apt-get install pdftk

MacOS

brew install pdftk-java

Usage

For example, to fill input PDF’s form fields with the data from an FDF file or XFDF file.

$pdftk = new \Qdequippe\PHPDFtk\PDFtk();

$filledPdf = $pdftk->fillForm(
    pdfFilePath: 'path_to_pdf.pdf',
    formDataFilePath: 'path_to_form_data.fdf', // or XFDF file,
    flatten: true,
);

// $filledPdf = PDF filled with form data

Testing

./vendor/bin/phpunit

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

Resources

• https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/pdftk
• https://www.pdflabs.com
• https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit