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Topic: Re: Batch Extracting Field Names (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) Forms & FDF, Msg: 118519
From: prodok
Date: 9/10/2004 04:03 PM

You could look at the Report Object in the Acrobat JavaScript Scripting
Reference, and put together a script which would create a report about
the fields, which could also contain more information about the fields
which would be of interest to you. You could then run this script as
part of a batch process, and with some patience, you would have a
report for each of these forms.

The code examples in the documentation should get you pretty close to
what you need.

Hope, this can help.



Max Wyss
PRODOK Engineering
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> I have inherited 200+ fillable PDFs which, while having a common name
> on the paper, such as Account Number, the developer working on the
> Fillable part named the fields differently. For example:
> AccountNumber, AccountNum, acctnum, acctNum...
>
> Rather than individually selecting Advanced->Forms->Export Forms Data
> for each PDF, is there a batch process that I can develop or run to
> open the PDF, export the FDF data, close the form... and loop through
> all the forms until I have extracted all of the data.
>
> I have attempted to merge all PDFs into a large document containing
> all fields and then export the Forms Data, but that does not work.
>
> Any thoughts around this issue would be greatly appreciated.
>