Fill out a fillable pdf

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I have to fill in some pdfs sent to me by the government, so I can’t modify them, is there any n8n or third party service that allows me to fill in an original pdf that is already editable?

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Hi @antonio_resoluciona, thanks for reaching out! You might need to duplicate the pdfs if they are locked and can’t be edited directly. Otherwise you can look into what’s mentioned here: Edit pdf using edit image node with the cloud hosting version

You can use the Edit Image node to add text to the pdf files. Edit Image | n8n Docs

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I think I did not explain well, I give you an example of how is the pdf, which is already editable as I could cover this pdf with n8n?

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if you download and open it you will see that it is editable, I can’t edit it directly with text over it, I have to cover specifically each field

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There’s a community node that supposedly has this functionality, though I haven’t tested it myself.

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works like a charm

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I extracted all form field names with Stiling PDF

and tried entering data using the node above, but it doesn’t work.
It may be related to the file being XFA-Format.

What you can do is, print the PDF as PDF (removing all fields etc), then add Form fields yourself, using Adobe Acrobat, or another able programm.

Use a node like the one above to fill your custom pdf form…

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this does not work properly for me it does not return the pdf correctly

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what’s the issue?

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For community nodes you usually need to reach out directly to the node developer for support

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Hi all, I really tried to use stilign pdf, but it is quite complex to use without programming knowledge, so if someone has this same problem, I recommend you try the apis for this same pdf.co https://www.pdf.co/, for me they were the solution to the problem I was talking about, thanks.

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