The real hell: his PDFs had no logical structure. Headers were just bold text. Footnotes were floating numbers.
from pypdf import PdfReader, PdfWriter reader = PdfReader("form.pdf") writer = PdfWriter() writer.clone_reader_document_root(reader) # Interact with form fields fields = reader.get_fields() writer.update_page_form_field_values( writer.pages[0], "full_name": "Jane Doe", "signature": "/s/Jane" ) The real hell: his PDFs had no logical structure
“ incremental=True means only changed bytes are rewritten. 0.1 second vs 5 seconds.” "full_name": "Jane Doe"