List form fields

This command prints a list of all form fields for a PDF form.

Have a look at some examples.

Usage

pdfcpu form list inFile...

Common Flags

name	description	values
v(erbose)	turn on logging
vv	verbose logging
q(uiet)	quiet mode
u(nit)	display unit	po(ints),in(ches),cm,mm
c(onf)	config dir	$path, disable
upw	user password
opw	owner password

Arguments

name	description	required
inFile	PDF input file containing a form	yes

Examples

List all form fields of english.pdf:

pdfcpu form list english.pdf

english.pdf
Pg L Field     │ Id         │ Default          │ Value                    │ Options
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 1   Textfield │ firstName1 │ Joe              │ Jackie                   │
     Textfield │ lastName1  │ Doeby            │ Doe                      │
     Datefield │ dob1       │ 01.01.2000       │ 31.12.1999               │
     RadioBGr. │ gender1    │ male             │ non-binary               │ female,male,non-binary
     ListBox   │ city11     │ Vienna,São Paulo │ San Francisco,Vienna     │ San Francisco,São Paulo,Vienna
     ComboBox  │ city12     │ San Francisco    │ Sidney                   │ London,San Francisco,Sidney
     CheckBox  │ cb11       │                  │ Yes                      │
     Textfield │ note1      │                  │ This is a sample text.\n │

List all form fields of person.pdf.

The * indicates locked fields aka write-protected or read-only:

pdfcpu form list person.pdf

person.pdf
Pg L Field     │ Id          │ Value   │ Options
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 1   Textfield │ firstName   │         │
     Textfield │ lastName    │         │
     Datefield │ dob         │         │
     CheckBox  │ dobVerified │         │
     RadioBGr. │ gender      │         │ female,male,non-binary
     Textfield │ country     │         │
   * Textfield │ planet      │ Earth   │
     Textfield │ occup       │         │
     ComboBox  │ status      │ unknown │ alive,deceased,imprisoned,killed,unknown
     ComboBox  │ license     │         │ CC BY 4.0,CC BY-SA 2.0,Public Domain,unknown