Question

I need to process the uploaded PDF blank form and then extract the fields and then save that in database.

i can use command line like

pdfkt myform.pdf dump_data_fields but i don’t know how i can do in django

any deas

Answer 1

Its more of a Python thing. You can use Python subprocess package. It allows you to start subprocesses and interact with it using it’s stdin, stdout, and stderr. Here is an example of how you can invoke your command in Python (or Django):

from subprocess import check_output

command = 'pdfkt %s dump_data_fields' % path
output = check_output(command, shell=True)
# do some processing here on output