Autofilling government PDF forms

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
October 23, 2020
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Hello Everyone,

I want to create a site for attorneys and users who does a lot of legal paperwork. It saves their common information in database - think of first name, last name, address, license number etc. Thereafter, any form that needs such information will be auto-populated.

Here's on such form:

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/g-28.pdf

Seems like all such government forms are protected with owner password. Can someone please shade light on how can I achieve this goal?

Thank you!

Pratik

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try67

Community Expert

This would be extremely difficult to do, bordering on impossible, I think. It would only work if the files allow importing data without removing the Reader Rights applied to them (like the one you shared) AND if the field names in all of those files are the same, which they are very unlikely to be. Short of that you would need to write some kind of AI-algorithm to identify where to insert each piece of information...

try67

Community Expert

Or you would need to create a mapping for each individual form...

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Pratik0D4DAuthor

Participant

Yes. Mapping fields for each forms is what my intent. Let's say ID of first name field in g-28 form is "g_28_fn" and my database field name is simply "first_name". I would have mapping for form g-28 stores as

g_28_fn: first_name

But, what I don't know is how to figure out all the field IDs in G-28 form without knowing owner password?

While giving information please keep in mind that I am new to Acrobat ecosystem. I understand JavaScript and frontend development quite well.

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