command-line tool that...

• ...extracts .pdf form fields using pdftk,
• ...interactively prompts the user for values, and..
• ...outputs a (hopefully) valid .fdf (Forms Data Format) file

• make
• C compiler
• pdftk (currently)

git clone https://github.com/slowptr/pdfdf
cd pdfdf
make

./pdfdf example.pdf > my_form_field_data.fdf

• answer your personalized form-field Q&A session
• make use of the .fdf output, by f.e. leveraging pdftk to fill the form of the initial .pdf:

pdftk example.pdf fill_form my_form_field_data.fdf output my_example_but_filled.pdf

• poweroff
• take hit of MDPHP pipe