I've been looking at using the Ruby pdf-reader gem [1] to see if it can be used to extract the form data (Full Name etc) from ICLAs.
This works well for many cases, so I think it might be worth adding to the Secretary workbench. Would it be OK to add the pdf-reader Gem to the mix? Note: I also tried Apache PDFBox, and that works fine for extracting annotations. However it would require a JRE to be installed, and AFAICT cannot be called directly from Ruby. The poppler library is currently installed, but not its Ruby bindings, and the tools don't seem to provide support for extracting form data. I installed the poppler Gem locally, but require 'poppler' fails to load: gobject-introspection/loader.rb:215:in `initialize': invalid GType (ArgumentError) Sebb. [1] https://rubygems.org/gems/pdf-reader/
