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@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@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 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
