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Topic: Re: Exporting Acrobat4.0 PDF forms to a database
Conf: (P-PDF) Forms & FDF, Msg: 117650
From: tmort
Date: 8/21/2004 04:11 PM

I want to do something similar.

I want to distribute a pdf form via email or media, have people fill it out with Acrobat Reader and save it for later re-editing of the field data and then submit the pdf or fdf back for import into a database.

As I understand it I can add a submit button to the form that allows the information to be sent to a web page which can then be linked to the db

Probably simpler for my purposes (there won't we too many of them) would be for them to send the pdf/fdf file back in via email or disk and we would then do the import.

I understand that I can use PERL to write a script to get the data from the fields and put it into my db:

Do I put a button on the form with the script associated with the button, and if so are there any examples of such a script and syntax?

Also, there is a program called Arts FDF import which looks like it could save some work.

Any thoughts on how to approach this?

Thanks in advance