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A PDF processor written in Go.

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Changelog

Remove form fields

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.

Usage

pdfcpu form remove inFile [outFile] fieldID...


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 form yes
outFile PDF output file for dry runs no
fieldID form field id yes


Examples

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 │