feat(pdf): add form field detection, fill, and flatten

Adds pdfGetFormFields (lists AcroForm fields with name/type/value) and
pdfFillForm (fills text fields by name, optionally flattens) to
PDFOperations.js, dispatched via 'formFields'/'fillForm' in
executeOperation. pdfFillForm skips unknown/non-text fields per-field
(logs + continues) rather than failing the whole batch, matching the
partial-success precedent set by pdfExtractImages.

Wires a "Fill Form" entry into the PDF editor dialog: selecting a PDF
fetches its fields via a new get-pdf-form-fields/pdf-form-fields IPC
round trip and renders one text input per field, plus a flatten
checkbox, following the same structure as the crop/pageNumbers dialogs.

Amit Haridas
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2026-08-23 19:31:33 +05:30
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@@ -589,6 +589,70 @@ async function pdfExtractImages(data) {
}
}
async function pdfGetFormFields(data) {
try {
const pdfBytes = fs.readFileSync(data.inputPath);
const pdf = await PDFDocument.load(pdfBytes);
const form = pdf.getForm();
const fields = form.getFields().map((field) => {
let value;
try {
if (typeof field.getText === 'function') {
value = field.getText();
} else if (typeof field.isChecked === 'function') {
value = field.isChecked();
} else if (typeof field.getSelected === 'function') {
value = field.getSelected();
}
} catch {
// Some field types throw when read in an unexpected state; leave value undefined.
value = undefined;
}
return { name: field.getName(), type: field.constructor.name, value };
});
return { success: true, fields };
} catch (error) {
return { success: false, error: error.message };
}
}
async function pdfFillForm(data) {
try {
const pdfBytes = fs.readFileSync(data.inputPath);
const pdf = await PDFDocument.load(pdfBytes);
const form = pdf.getForm();
const values = data.values || {};
let filledCount = 0;
for (const [name, value] of Object.entries(values)) {
try {
const field = form.getTextField(name);
field.setText(value !== null && value !== undefined ? String(value) : '');
filledCount++;
} catch (fieldError) {
// Batch-of-independent-fields: a field that doesn't exist or isn't a text
// field shouldn't fail the whole fill — skip it and keep going (same
// partial-success precedent as pdfExtractImages).
console.warn(`pdfFillForm: skipping field "${name}": ${fieldError.message}`);
}
}
if (data.flatten) {
form.flatten();
}
const filledPdfBytes = await pdf.save();
fs.writeFileSync(data.outputPath, filledPdfBytes);
return { success: true, message: `Successfully filled ${filledCount} form field(s)` };
} catch (error) {
return { success: false, error: error.message };
}
}
function executeOperation(operation, data) {
switch (operation) {
case 'merge':
@@ -619,6 +683,10 @@ function executeOperation(operation, data) {
return pdfCrop(data);
case 'extractImages':
return pdfExtractImages(data);
case 'formFields':
return pdfGetFormFields(data);
case 'fillForm':
return pdfFillForm(data);
default:
return Promise.resolve({ success: false, error: `Unknown operation: ${operation}` });
}
@@ -647,6 +715,8 @@ module.exports = {
pdfAddPageNumbers,
pdfCrop,
pdfExtractImages,
pdfGetFormFields,
pdfFillForm,
executeOperation,
getPageCount,
};