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 │