Dhek

Besides helping you get a consistent look and unified appearance, templates also simplify document creation, increased productivity and save you a lot of time in the long run.
Dhek is a utility that allows you to create templates by specifying and defining the areas that you want to fill in the text, checkboxes or other types of content.

Rugged interface and minimalistic functionality

The setup is fairly quick and uneventful, as it mainly entails extracting the archive and accessing the application. In addition, you are not required to do any configuration before you can start working on your template.
Even though it is intuitive and organized, the interface consists of an old-fashion and rather dull window that features 3 main areas. More exactly, you can access the few functions from the toolbar and you can preview and add specific areas to the file from the dedicated panel.
As far as the functionality is concerned, it can be summarized to highlighting specific regions from a PDF or blank document and specifying their future role.

Create templates that you can use in other applications

It is necessary to mention that you can save the current mappings for your project in a JSON format, an open source that can be easily integrated with other programming environments, such as PHP, .NET or JVM, for example. Then again, you should know that the app does not support editing and does not include a preview function.
On a side note, you do not need to alter any PDF files in order to create your new template. In fact, the application enables you to design a template right on top of any existing PDF file. Then again, if you are new to this, you can use the various sections of a PDF to make correct estimation for cells of text, checkboxes or images, for instance.

A mediocre application for advanced users

All in all, Dhek is an overly simplistic tool whose role is to enable you to create various templates that you might use in other more complex projects, such as creating an app in a PHP programming environment.