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Topic: Re: Batch Extracting Field Names (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) Forms & FDF, Msg: 118525
From: LeonardR
Date: 9/10/2004 08:28 PM
At 06:53 AM 9/10/2004, p-pdf-forms Listmanager wrote:
>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.
Sure, you could write a program that would do this in JavaScript,
Visual Basic, etc.
Or there are existing 3rd party tools that can do it for you -
reporting the information in text, XML, etc. formats.
Leonard
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