On Mar 3, 2011 6:07 AM, "Mike Blezien" <mick...@frontiernet.net> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I posted a question earlier about creating a PDF file from a PDF form
submission which we now have working. We are able to create the PDF file to
be attached to an email.
>
> The issue I'm having now is the ability to extract some specific data from
these PDF file created. We need to extract a couple of form field values
from the PDF file created. I've been reviewing the various PDF modules and
haven't been able to figure it out. The modules I've looking at are
PDF::API2::Simple and PDF::FDF::Simple. These seem to just create/edit the
PDF files, but I need to extract specific data from the created PDF file.
>
> Is there another way to do this with these modules or some other method ?
>
>
Maybe I'm missing something but why don't you just dump all of the form data
into a db and then you can create as many pdf as you like? I mean, I've used
a pdf scraping module (you can even do ocr with one) but it isn't fun
because the data is generally not nicely formatted for this. This probably
isn't the case for you but who cares because you have access to the
pre-processed data.
