A PDF processor written in Go.
View the Project on GitHub pdfcpu/pdfcpu
This command removes form fields by their id
taken from the output of pdfcpu form list
.
Although the optional field label is an attribute of the JSON form field element, this command removes the field only.
Have a look at some examples.
pdfcpu form remove inFile [outFile] fieldID...
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 |
name | description | required |
---|---|---|
inFile | PDF input file containing form | yes |
outFile | PDF output file for dry runs | no |
fieldID | form field id | yes |
Remove the field with id dob1:
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 │
pdfcpu form remove english.pdf dob1
writing 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 │
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 │