Hello,
I many PDFs that I read in using Acrobat DC and I always need the top table on the second page of each PDF, I store these values in excel and later into a database.
Is there a way to automate this with javascript?
Ideally I just need a way to quickly get data from the top table on the second page.
thanks
A reliable solution is very unlikely. In the API, the only way you can 'read' a word from a page is the doc.getPageNthWord() method, which only gets one word, based on the page's internal content ordering.
In theory if every table was identical you could read each word separately and rebuild them into a string, but when you OCR a document the concept of word order, and word breaks, is variable to say the least. If your word counts are different in each document you'd have no idea how many to read, and there's no way in JavaScript to work out what is and is not a table cell; you're not dealing with HTML.
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