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Automating Field Data Extraction in PDF Documents with Adobe Acrobat Pro

Community Beginner ,
Oct 03, 2024 Oct 03, 2024

Hello kind Adobe community experts,

 

I am a subscriber to Acrobat Pro and I'm looking for a straightforward method, without delving into programming, to extract data from specific fields in scanned documents and automatically populate corresponding fields in my own PDFs.

For example, I want to extract the engine capacity from the "P1" field of a vehicle registration document and have it populate the designated field in my PDF. Is there an existing feature or tool in Acrobat Pro that can facilitate this process?

 

Scanning and Auto-Population: How can I enable users to scan documents directly from within the program, ensuring the data is automatically populated into the appropriate fields in a PDF?

 

Conditional Field Logic: If a particular field is filled in a specific way, how can I set it so that other fields offer limited options based on that input? For example, if "Field1" is filled with a certain value, "Field3" and "Field4" should only allow choices from a specific collection.


Thank you for your help.

Best,
Alessandro

 
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Create PDFs , Edit and convert PDFs , PDF , PDF forms , Scan documents and OCR
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Community Expert ,
Oct 03, 2024 Oct 03, 2024

When you say "field" do you mean "area on the page" or an actual form field? Either way, this requires using a script, but the latter is much easier to implement than the former.

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 04, 2024 Oct 04, 2024

Grazie mille gentile Try67. Intendevo dire effettivi campi modulo ... o meglio prendendo sempre in esame e per pura comodità una carta di circolazione di un'autovettura mi interesserebbe una volta scannerizzata che vengano letti tutti i campi come dei campi modulo e una volta ottenuto ciò vorrei che questi vengano trasferiti in modo appropriato nei campi modulo corrispondenti creati ad hoc nel pdf creato per ricevere i dati estrapolati dal documento di origine. Ammettiamo che nel nostro pdf abbiamo un campo preposto al modello dell'autovettura ... bene ... nel campo d3 della carta di circolazione potremmo effettivamente leggere di che modello si tratta ... quindi bisognerà travasare i dati dal

campo d3 della carta di circolazione (una volta scannerizzata e individuati e creati automaticamente i campi modulo in base ai numeri e lettere dei campi ... esempio : D1, C2 , P1 Etc.) e travasarli nei campi modulo del nostro pdf che avranno i nomi specifici ... per esempio il corrispettivo di P1 sarà la cilindrata del mezzo

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Community Expert ,
Oct 04, 2024 Oct 04, 2024
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Well, the easiest way to do it would be if the fields in both files were named the same. Then you could just export the form data from one file (to an .fdf file, for example), and import it into the other one directly.

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Community Expert ,
Oct 03, 2024 Oct 03, 2024

Take a look at this article:

https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/Form-Data-Handling.cfm

 

 

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScripting
Use the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 04, 2024 Oct 04, 2024

Grazie mille gentilissimo Thom ! Il tuo articolo è davvero completo e molto interessante . Tuttavia viste le mie modeste conoscenze tecniche dovrò studiarlo con tempo e attenzione vedendo cosa e come poter sperimentare al fin di ottenere la competenza nel mio piccolo progetto. Per ora ti ringrazio tanto

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