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@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@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 _______________________________________________ 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
