The tutorial shows you how to access the form fields in a PDF document and how to fill each form field with value by using Spire.PDF for Java.
Entire Code:
import com.spire.pdf.FileFormat;
import com.spire.pdf.PdfDocument;
import com.spire.pdf.fields.PdfField;
import com.spire.pdf.widget.*;
public class FillFormField{
public static void main(String[] args){
//create a PdfDocument object
PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument();
//load a sample PDF containing forms
doc.loadFromFile("G:\\java-workspace\\Spire.Pdf\\Forms.pdf");
//get the form fields from the document
PdfFormWidget form = (PdfFormWidget) doc.getForm();
//get the form widget collection
PdfFormFieldWidgetCollection formWidgetCollection = form.getFieldsWidget();
//loop through the widget collection and fill each field with value
for (int i = 0; i < formWidgetCollection.getCount(); i++) {
PdfField field = formWidgetCollection.get(i);
if (field instanceof PdfTextBoxFieldWidget) {
PdfTextBoxFieldWidget textBoxField = (PdfTextBoxFieldWidget) field;
textBoxField.setText("Kaila Smith");
}
if (field instanceof PdfRadioButtonListFieldWidget) {
PdfRadioButtonListFieldWidget radioButtonListField = (PdfRadioButtonListFieldWidget) field;
radioButtonListField.setSelectedIndex(1);
}
if (field instanceof PdfListBoxWidgetFieldWidget) {
PdfListBoxWidgetFieldWidget listBox = (PdfListBoxWidgetFieldWidget) field;
listBox.setSelectedIndex(0);
}
if (field instanceof PdfCheckBoxWidgetFieldWidget) {
PdfCheckBoxWidgetFieldWidget checkBoxField = (PdfCheckBoxWidgetFieldWidget) field;
switch(checkBoxField.getName()){
case "checkbox1":
checkBoxField.setChecked(true);
break;
case "checkbox2":
checkBoxField.setChecked(true);
break;
}
}
if (field instanceof PdfComboBoxWidgetFieldWidget) {
PdfComboBoxWidgetFieldWidget comboBoxField = (PdfComboBoxWidgetFieldWidget) field;
comboBoxField.setSelectedIndex(1);
}
}
//Save the file
doc.saveToFile("FillFormFields.pdf", FileFormat.PDF);
}
}
Output:

