Remove form fields

This command removes form fields by their id or name 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 | fieldName >... [flags]

Common Flags

Arguments

name	description	required
inFile	PDF input file containing form, use `-` to read from stdin	yes
outFile	PDF output file, use `-` to write to stdout	no
fieldID	form field id	either
fieldName	form field name	or

Examples

Remove the field with id 32:

$ 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 │ 32 | dob1       │ 01.01.2000       │ 31.12.1999               │
     RadioBGr. │ 33 | gender1    │ male             │ non-binary               │ female,male,non-binary
     ListBox   │ 34 | city11     │ Vienna,São Paulo │ San Francisco,Vienna     │ San Francisco,São Paulo,Vienna
     ComboBox  │ 35 | city12     │ San Francisco    │ Sidney                   │ London,San Francisco,Sidney
     CheckBox  │ 36 | cb11       │                  │ Yes                      │
     Textfield │ 37 | note1      │                  │ This is a sample text.\n │

$ pdfcpu form remove english.pdf 32
writing 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                      │
     RadioBGr. │ 33 | gender1    │ male             │ non-binary               │ female,male,non-binary
     ListBox   │ 34 | city11     │ Vienna,São Paulo │ San Francisco,Vienna     │ San Francisco,São Paulo,Vienna
     ComboBox  │ 35 | city12     │ San Francisco    │ Sidney                   │ London,San Francisco,Sidney
     CheckBox  │ 36 | cb11       │                  │ Yes                      │
     Textfield │ 37 | note1      │                  │ This is a sample text.\n │

Remove form fields while reading and writing the PDF through pipes:

$ aws s3 cp s3://acme-forms/application.pdf - \
   | pdfcpu form remove - - legacyField \
   | aws s3 cp - s3://acme-forms/application-pruned.pdf