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Create Fillable Form

Turn a flat (non-fillable) PDF into a fillable form. Emboss detects text fields, checkboxes, signatures, and tables, and returns a fillable PDF plus a form ID. Use Fill Existing Form to fill it later, or Fill PDF From Context to detect and fill in one step. Polls up to ~12 minutes for large documents. See the documentation
  • Action
  • Writes data
  • API key
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Emboss account once, then configure and run Create Fillable Form from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "emboss-create-fillable-form",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    emboss: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    file: "File Path Or Url",
    idempotencyKey: "Idempotency Key",
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Create Fillable Form inputs
Property Type Description
file File Path Or Url string
Provide either a file URL or a path to a file in the /tmp directory (for example, /tmp/form.pdf).
Required
idempotencyKey Idempotency Key string
A unique string (e.g. a UUID) to safely retry this request. If a previous request with the same key already started a job, Emboss returns that original job instead of starting a new one. Scoped to your account; valid 24 hours.
Optional
callbackUrl Callback URL string
A public HTTPS URL Emboss will POST the job result to when it finishes (ready or failed), signed with X-Emboss-Signature, e.g. https://example.com/webhooks/emboss. Optional — this action already polls until the job completes.
Optional
syncDir Sync Directory dir
The File Stash directory the output PDF is written to. Defaults to /tmp.
Optional

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
emboss-create-fillable-form
Version
0.0.2
App
Emboss
Authentication
API key
Read-only
No
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes