About

Fill PDF Service is an iText web service which lets you:

  1. Populate an existing PDF template with webform data
  2. Parse PDF documents, allowing you to interpret a template's form-field structure

This functionality can be useful if your website is similar to TurboTax or FAFSA, where a user is guided through webforms whose data will later populate a PDF template. If you're trying to do this kind of PDF crunching in Drupal or PHP, this service might be for you (see why).

This is how it works:

  1. You install Fill PDF on your Drupal site and choose Fill PDF Service as your PDF-filling method.
  2. You upload and configure an interactive PDF form (see documentation).
  3. You set up a link to trigger the form to be filled, and Drupal asks Fill PDF Service to do the work when this happens.
  4. Fill PDF Service sends the completed form back to Drupal, and Drupal does the rest. Usually, that consists of prompting the user to download the completed PDF or saving it to a configured file path.