Power Apps Add An Image To A PDF Form

Power Apps Add An Image To A PDF Form

Power Apps can be used to collect data and display the results on a PDF document with the help of Power Automate. Populating text fields in a PDF is easy but figuring out how to add an image is not as straightforward. However, you must know how to insert images to show a customer’s signature on a contract or a picture of something that failed during an inspection. In this article I will reveal how to add an image to a PDF Form in Power Apps.

Table Of Contents:
Introduction: The Sales Contract App
Create A Sales Contract App In Power Apps
Enable The Developer Tab In Microsoft Word
Add An Image Field To The Word Document Template
Save The Word Document Template To OneDrive
Generate A PDF From A Word Document Template Using Power Automate
Transfer Signature Image From Power Apps To A Power Automate Flow
Generate The PDF Contract From Power Apps




Introduction: The Sales Contract App

Salespeople at a selling & marketing company use the Sales Contract app to collect a contract signature from their customers. A signed a PDF copy of the contract is sent to both the salesperson and the customer.



The PDF contract looks like this:




Create A Sales Contract App In Power Apps

Open Power Apps studio and create a new tablet app from blank. Place a label with the words “Sales Contract” at the top of the screen.



Next, insert another label directly below with the contract text.



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Then add a pen input control and place it below the contract text. This is all we must do to setup the app for now. We will return to it later to insert a submit button.




Enable The Developer Tab In Microsoft Word

When the sales contract is submitted in Power Apps the customer’s signature gets applied to a PDF sales contract. We will create the sales contract template in Microsoft Word and then apply the signature and convert to PDF using Power Automate. Open Microsoft Word and start a new document. Insert the text shown below.



Then right-click on any tab in the ribbon and choose Customize the Ribbon.



Check the Developer box and press OK. Now the developer tab will appear in the ribbon and allow us to create a Word document template.




Add An Image Field To The Word Document Template

In Power Apps the customer will sign at the bottom of the contract. We will need an image field at the bottom of the Word document template to display the signature. Add an image field to the contract.



Right-click on the image and choose Size and Position.



Uncheck lock aspect ratio and choose a height and width. In Power Apps my pen input had a height of 216 and a width of 563 of I chose 2.16″ and 5.63″.



Next, highlight the image field and select Properties.



Input the title and tag Signature Image to identify the field in Power Automate. Save and close the Word Document once finished.




Save The Word Document Template To OneDrive

The Word document template must be stored in a SharePoint document library or OneDrive for Power Automate to access it. In this example we will use OneDrive. Move the sales contract word document template to the root folder in OneDrive.




Generate A PDF From A Word Document Template Using Power Automate

After submitting the contract Power Automate is used to populate the word document template with the customer’s signature image, convert the file to PDF and send the contract as an attachment via email. Open Power Automate and start a new instant cloud flow.



Select the Power Apps (V2) trigger and press Create.



Add a file type input to the Power Apps (V2) trigger named Signature Image and remove the description.



Then make the Signature Image required.



Next, add a compose action with the following code. The Word document template requires the image code to be formatted in this way.



Insert a Populate a Microsoft Word template action and point it to the sales contract we created. Use the output of the compose action in the Signature Image field.



Add a Create File action and fill it with the Microsoft Word document body.



Then Convert the Word Document to PDF.



And finally Send an Email (V2) with the Sales Contract attached. The Power Automate flow is now completed.




Transfer Signature Image From Power Apps To A Power Automate Flow

Now we will complete the Sales Contract App. Go back to the Power Apps and connect the Generate PDF With Image flow to the app.



Insert a button with the text “Generate PDF” at the bottom of the contract.



Use this code in the OnSelect property of the button to trigger the flow and take the signature image as a flow input.

GeneratePDFWithImage.Run(
    {
        contentBytes: pen_Signature.Image,
        name: Concatenate("signature_", Text(Now(), "yyMMddhhmmss"), ".jpg")
    }
)




Generate The PDF Contract From Power Apps

Our app, flow and word document template are now complete. Write a signature in the pen input field to and select the Generate PDF button.



After a few moments the Sales Contract PDF is received via email and shows a signature image at the bottom.





Questions?

If you have any questions about Power Apps Add An Image To A PDF Form please leave a message in the comments section below. You can post using your email address and are not required to create an account to join the discussion.

Matthew Devaney

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Jon Russell
1 year ago

Hey Matt, How’s it going?

Just run through this, thanks ! I just wanted to point out that it is important to check the name of the flow that you have created and underneath the name of the flow, when it has been connected to the app, is the name of the flow that you need to precede the .Run action.

Also, to rename the pen input to pen_Signature 🙂

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Martin Aldewereld
Martin Aldewereld
1 year ago

Matthew,

Thanks for this nice feature.

After the compose,

{
 “$content-type”: “Image/png”,
 “$content”: @{triggerBody()[‘file’][‘contentBytes’]}
}

I get the error: The image is not of type PNG or JPG. Please provide an image of type PNG or JPG.
On the Populate a MS Word Template.

See attached flow image.

Thanks,
Martin

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Martin Aldewereld
Martin Aldewereld
1 year ago

Added image flow run information

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Swagata Rhea
Swagata Rhea
6 months ago

Even after doing this, facing the same jpg/png issue, what to do now

George Winters
1 year ago

Another winner ! Thanks !!

Mahesh Caroicar
Mahesh Caroicar
1 year ago

Matt, first of All thanks, is very cool from you to share the knowledge, let me show you and example of What I did witha a Word template and works very good, so you may have this as an alternative,

from PowerApps I create a Button in “OnSelect Property”

Set(vConceptSign,JSON(SignatureCtrl.Image,IncludeBinaryData));
Set(vConceptSign,Mid(vConceptSign,24,Len(vConceptSign)-24));
The minus 24 is to remove this from the Binary variable to send : data:image/png;base64

And this is the code for the flow:
SignedDoc.Run(vConceptSign)

Then in my Flow after the PowerApps Trigger

I create a File with this Filename Expression : concat(‘sng’,utcNow(‘yyyyMMddhhmmss’),’.png’)
Then the Filecontent with this expression : base64ToBinary(triggerBody()[‘CustomerSign_FileContent’])

Finally I add the file content into the Mapped field for the signature,

Is Just an Alternative

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Will Tumusiime
Will Tumusiime
1 year ago

Hi Matt this is great. I have image and text fields that I want to populate a word document with from a powerapp. I have been using powerapps to save to save the text and image a SharePoint list and attachment before sending it to flow.
If I wanted to skip the SharePoint step, would I use JSON and the image method detailed by Mahesh above? Or is there another way using the V2 trigger?

Will Tumusiime
Will Tumusiime
1 year ago

Just answered my own question. Just needed to add an extra input with the V2. Have one for JSON with text fields and the other for the image

Didier ALTIDE
Didier ALTIDE
1 year ago

Thank you Matthew, juste remade it on my computer and it works really well !
I hope you’ll cover also all the things that you can populate Word with, because I have a project going on where I’ll have to copy pieces of text in the middle of a Word template to re-create a complete Sales Order. I’ll stay tuned !

Dean
Dean
1 year ago

Hi Matthew, In my environment the Populate a Microsoft Word Template is a premium connector. How come this does not show as a premium connector for you?

Dean
Dean
1 year ago

I’m still looking for a reliable and free method of creating a PDF containing multiple images that is paginated. I have used the Power Automate Word connector in the past but you need to add the number of image slots to the template. The OneDrive Convert action can be used to convert HTML to PDF but this is limited to 2MB so doesn’t handle multiple images. Really hoping MS address this as I feel it is a very common business scenario.

Mathieu
Mathieu
11 months ago

Hi Matt,

Thank you for this post, it helps me a lot !
I just have a question, let’s say that I want populate 2 or more pictures. What would be the modification in the script you propose?

  • Add a 2nd trigger ?
  • Add a 2nd Compose with the 2nd trigger name?
  • And also, what does it change in the Run function from powerapp?

Thank you in advance for your help !

Mathieu

Mathieu
Mathieu
11 months ago

Thank you Matthew ! It worked

Daniele
Daniele
11 months ago

Hi Matt,
first to all, thank you very much for your very usefull article and job.
I would ask you something .
I know that it is possible to create a signature from power app, but
Can I attach it to an existing pdf document dowloading it from on drive business?
I always have different pdf files that someone send me to on drive business folder, and I need to create an app to sign them.

Thanks once again
Bye
Daniele

Daniele
Daniele
11 months ago

Hi Matthew, just to be sure I asked you correctly.
Let’s suppose users send me daily different word files inside a directory in OnDrive business and
each of this files contain a TAG Signature Image.
Can I think to use your solution in order to sign them by a power app?

Thanks once again.
Bye
Daniele