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I have a PDF document that represents a print form that is normally filled out by hand.
I want to to programatically populate certain text fields in the document (it is not a PDF form, just a plain PDF document) and fill it out with data specific to each user of the site.
I want the end form to look like it was passed through a typewriter and had data typed in (doesn’t have to appear as if it was hand written.)
The end result should be a new PDF document with the data filled in.
Read the PDF Document as a Template (background-image) and write your Text over the template.
I’ve done this in PHP with the free fpdf_tpl and the fpdi libraries.
I don’t know the python world very well but there is this SO post about python and pdf