Reading PDF Form Data in LiveCode?

[Bob Sneidar]

I should have mentioned, you need Acrobat for this, Reader won't do it, and any Acrobat alternative would need to be able to run javascripts. 

Bob S


> On Oct 10, 2018, at 08:16 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Have you heard of my app? :-)
> 
> What I do on a Mac is tell Acrobat (via Applescript) to create an fdf file which is an xml formatted file of all the values in the form controls. I then have a function that parses that file into a livecode array. Windows is trickier, because you cannot tell acrobat for windows to do anything from outisde without going through a C API that Adobe provides for that purpose. 
> 
> If however your workflow allows for a user interaction, then you can just create an action to run a javascript. Here's the code:
> 
> this.exportAsFDF(true, true, null, false);
> 
> Once you have that file, I can send you the code I use to parse it. 
> 
> Bob S
> 
> 
>> On Oct 10, 2018, at 08:03 , Stephen Barncard via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> before wheel invention it might be prudent to see how the existing apps do
>> this.
>> especially if this is a one shot.
>> 
>> https://pdf.wondershare.com/top-pdf-software/free-pdf-to-csv-converter.html
>> --
>> Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA -
>> mixstream.org
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 7:45 AM Peter Reid via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Does anyone have any code or suggestions for reading the data from PDF
>>> forms? I have several hundred form fields in 5 different design forms in
>>> PDF format that I need to extract. The data is mainly text fields but may
>>> include a few checkboxes and radio buttons. Any thoughts please?
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> Peter
>>> --
>>> Peter Reid
>>> Loughborough, UK
> 
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