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
-o(ffline)	disable http traffic
c(onf)	config dir	$path, disable
opw	owner password
upw	user password
u(nit)	display unit	po(ints),in(ches),cm,mm

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 | Name       │ Default          │ Value                    │ Options
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 1   Textfield │ 30 | firstName1 │ Joe              │ Jackie                   │
     Textfield │ 31 | lastName1  │ Doeby            │ Doe                      │
     Datefield │ 34 | dob1       │ 01.01.2000       │ 31.12.1999               │
     RadioBGr. │ 36 | gender1    │ male             │ non-binary               │ female,male,non-binary
     ListBox   │ 17 | city11     │ Vienna,São Paulo │ San Francisco,Vienna     │ San Francisco,São Paulo,Vienna
     ComboBox  │ 38 | city12     │ San Francisco    │ Sidney                   │ London,San Francisco,Sidney
     CheckBox  │ 40 | cb11       │                  │ Yes                      │
     Textfield │ 41 | 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 | Name        │ Value   │ Options
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 1   Textfield │ 30 | firstName   │         │
     Textfield │ 31 | lastName    │         │
     Datefield │ 34 | dob         │         │
     CheckBox  │ 36 | dobVerified │         │
     RadioBGr. │ 17 | gender      │         │ female,male,non-binary
     Textfield │ 38 | country     │         │
   * Textfield │ 40 | planet      │ Earth   │
     Textfield │ 41 | occup       │         │
     ComboBox  │ 42 | status      │ unknown │ alive,deceased,imprisoned,killed,unknown
     ComboBox  │ 43 | license     │         │ CC BY 4.0,CC BY-SA 2.0,Public Domain,unknown