Support forms

[thebetterjort]

Would like to be able to graba data from PDF forms.

[diegomura]

Thanks @thebetterjort . This is definitely something we will like to tackle (if possible) in a near future

[marteloge]

I would love this feature! Have someone been working on this feature? :)

[raguiar2]

Old issue, but does anyone know if this is possible?

[thebetterjort]

Never tried to get it working.

[valstu]

I guess react-pdf won't support pulling data out of existing pdfs but I think we could now add support for Acro forms (adding dynamic input fields to pdfs) since support for that was added on pdfkit on this PR https://github.com/foliojs/pdfkit/pull/1002

I would love to participate adding this functionality but tbh don't have much experience working with custom renderers. If someone could push me into right direction I could take a look at this. @diegomura do you see any instant blockers why Acroforms wouldn't work with react-pdf?

[diegomura]

Hey @valstu ! Not at all. Everything should be already in place for forms to work. I recently added those primitives to our pdfkit fork. I didn't do it yet because of lack of time 😅 Yesterday I updated the CONTRIBUTING document with some hints about how to setup a react-pdf dev environment. I think the only "blocker" is deciding how forms primitives will look like. I lean to copying react-natives (or react-primitives) as close as possible because that means the learning curve for people about how to use them get's smaller

[sepsol]

This would be a great feature, any updates?

[diego-hourly]

Yup I'm requiring a feature like this one. Is there a chance for me to help on this? I need it 😆

[anthares-dev]

Any update about this functionality?

[joziasmartini]

Are there any updates?