Medical Bill

This guide will show you how to create a medical bill document using creator templates from the creator package of UniPDF.

Before you begin #

Before you begin, you should get your API key from your UniCloud account.

If this is your first time using UniPDF SDK, follow this guide to setup a local development environment.

Clone the project repository #

In your terminal, clone the examples repository. It contains the Go code we will be using for this guide.

git clone https://github.com/unidoc/unipdf-examples.git

Navigate to the templates/medical-bill folder in the unipdf-examples directory.

cd unipdf-examples/templates/medical-bill

How it works #

The import in lines 10-22 imports UniPDF packages and other necessary libraries. The init function defined in lines 24-33 authenticates you request by loading your license key from environment variable.

In lines 35-91 the main function of the program is defined. In this function In this function in lines 40-43 the template file is read using readTemplate("templates/main.tpl"). In lines 46-49 the json data is read using readBillData("medical_bill.json"). The template options which contains helpful functions and other data is defined using creator.TemplateOptions in lines 52-72. The data is defined in lines 74-81. The template is drawn in line 83-85. And finally the pdf document is drawn to file using c.WriteToFile("unipdf-medical-bill.pdf") in line 88-91.

The functions readTemplate and readBillData defined in lines 95-124 are used to read the template file and the json data respectively.

The Bill data defined in 127-133 represents the bill data used for the template. The Guarantor, MedicalService, ServiceItem objects defined in lines 136-157 represents data that are part of the Bill data.

Run the code #

Run the code using the following command.

go run pdf_concert_ticket.go

Sample Output #

Document preview.