Help with Understanding

[RedDirtBits]

First, please, forgive me for intruding on you like this. I saw no other way to reach out to you.

I have been working on a Python program to fill out Unified Credentialing Applications similar to this one but for a different state. It has been a journey trying to sort out all that needs to be navigated with PDF's. I was trying to figure out how to deal with check boxes and came across your post here. It has been helpful, but there is much I am unable to piece together in your article.

In the article you mention print (annotation['/AP']['/N'].keys()) but I am unable to sort out what annotation is with respect to your code. I looked at the GitHub repository but am not able to glean what it is referencing.

In another (brilliant) function that you show:

def field_type(annotation):
    ft = annotation['/FT']
    ff = annotation['/Ff']

    if ft == '/Tx':
        return 'text'
    if ft == '/Ch':
        if ff and int(ff) & 1 << 17:  # test 18th bit
            return 'combo'
        else:
            return 'list'
    if ft == '/Btn':
        if ff and int(ff) & 1 << 15:  # test 16th bit
            return 'radio'
        else:
            return 'checkbox'

You use the annotation again, but the only thing I can come up with is its the form field name? But another thing came up in trying to emulate that code. I have no /Ff in the few PDF's I have looked at so far. Without that, is it possible to test the bits?

Again, forgive me for the intrusion like this. I have beat my head against my computer screen, laptop and desk for a couple days now trying to sort this out and this was the only way I saw to reach out to you. If you can offer any assistance that would be awesome. If not, I completely understand.

[summerswallow]

Sorry took so long. Since this repo had been around for a long time and there had been no questions, I had missed this.
Let me know if this is still relevant for you. If so I will take a look.

[RedDirtBits]

It's all good. I never got it all sorted out and it kind of fell to the back burner. The ultimate goal was to take the credentialing form, point it to the user information/data and it fill in the form and save it. I just never could work through the PDF structure to get at all the fields.

I had conversations with some of the traveling nurses at the hospital I work at (Network Engineer) and it seemed to be a common complaint about how long it took to fill out that form in particular and others and the number of times they had to do so. I had hoped to leverage my meager Python knowledge to help them out but never could sort it all out.