On Jul 15, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Ed Howland wrote:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/325874.html
The Google query was
extract data pdf +form Then I'm feeling lucky.
Basically you export the data in a FDF (Forms Data Format) file,
then parse that. You should only need Acro Read 5+ for that. You
can also send the data to a URL and use CGI to capture it. (This
could be useful to your survey respondants, so they don't have to
save it an email it back. And avoids you having to parse the FDF.)
This very thing you are trying to do was why Adobe created the form
stuff.
Many of us can get you that sweet Perl happiness of CGI w/ or w/o a
DB (LAMP) (LAP?) In my brain, I see a 3 line basic perl to extract
and print (append) the CGI to a comma seperated file suitable for
import.
From what I've read it looks as though you need to put this FDF file
on a webpage. That is, it's not something you e-mail or have people
download. But then maybe I read it wrong.
As another set of tools for working of PDFs, I got this from another
list:
http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/
Seems like a nice toolkit for working on PDFs.
Regards,
- Robert
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