Re: [libreoffice-users] pdf forms (OT?)

On 09/02/2024 08:17, Robert Großkopf wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> > It still leaves the question of how to extract the data from the 
> > completed form. Perhaps I've not hit the right keyword, but I've found 
> > /nothing/ on the net. Surely if there's a way of filling in a form, 
> > there's one of reading it!!
>
> I have tested (for German Base Handbuch) 
> https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/
>
> Works with Linux this way:
>
> for i in *.pdf ; do pdftk "$i" dump_data_fields_utf8 >> auswertung.txt ; 
> done
...

Many thanks, that will work nicely. The output looks very easily 
parseable by perl, ready to make a sql database.


--
Mike Scott
Harlow, Essex, England


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