Add text to existing pdf files

Question

I have many pdf files for different people. The issue is I want to add a text to show their unique ID number in the files. I can add a fillable field across all the pdf files but not sure how to map the ID with the pdf file then fill it out. Is it possible using Python tool in Alteryx?

KimLamNg · Answer

Thank you Yoshiro. I’ll try your suggestion. I receive the pdf files from someone else so don’t have data to recreate them.

Yoshiro_Fujimori · Answer

@KimLamNg

There seems to be a variety of python libraries to deal with fillable fields in PDF.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17742042/how-to-fill-pdf-form-in-python

I have not tried it yet as I cannot install python libraries freely on my environment.

Good luck.

IMHO if possible it would be simpler to create PDF files with the unique ID on Alteryx.