Intro

An Example of AWS Lambdas function for generating PDFs. This project includes PDFtk binary and the ligcj shared library, because AWS Lambda runs on Amazon Linux, which doesn't support PDFtk or GCJ. For deployment to AWS I'd suggest to use Zappa. For it you just need to create S3 bucket and add it to zappa_settings.json.

How to use

$ pip install zappa

$ zappa init

$ zappa deploy dev

If there are no issue then you can fill out PDF by REST API.

$ curl --request POST \
  --url https://<your-aws-lambda-url>/pdf/test \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "Given Name Text Box": "Jon",
  "Family Name Text Box": "Doe",
  "House nr Text Box": "21",
  "Address 2 Text Box": "GA 12345-6789, US",
  "Postcode Text Box": "123456",
  "Country Combo Box": "USA",
  "Height Formatted Field": "180",
  "City Text Box": "Atlanta",
  "Driving License Check Box": "On",
  "Favourite Colour List Box": "Green",
  "Language 1 Check Box": "Yes",
  "Language 2 Check Box": "No",
  "Language 3 Check Box": "Yes",
  "Language 4 Check Box": "Off",
  "Language 5 Check Box": "Off",
  "Gender List Box": "Man",
  "Address 1 Text Box": "PO Box 00001, Atlanta"
}'

API

GET: /pdf/ - get list of supported PDF files
GET: /pdf/<pdfname>?format={pairs,keys} - get information about fillable PDF
POST: /pdf/<pdfname> - generate filled PDF file

Docker

If you'd like to use Docker you can build own image.

$ docker build -t amazon-pdftk:latest .

$ docker run -p 5000:5000 amazon-pdftk