Receipt

In this guide creating a receipt document using creator template will be shown.

Before you begin #

Before you begin, you should first 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/receipt folder in the unipdf-examples directory.

cd unipdf-examples/templates/receipt

How it works #

The following code shows how a receipt document is created using the template.

The import section in lines 8-18 imports UniPDF packages and other necessary libraries. The init function defined in lines 20-28 authenticates your request.

The Field object which represents a field item of the ``Receiptobject is defined in lines31-34. The Receiptobject is defined in lines37-40`.

In lines 42-68 the main function is defined where the template is drawn and written to a file using the helping functions. The readTemplate function which defined in lines 71-84 is used to read the template file. The readReceipt function which read the data from a json and decodes it to Receipt object is defined in lines 87-103.

Run the code #

run the code by using the following command from inside the unipdf-examples/templates/receipt directory.

go run pdf_receipt.go

Sample Output #