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I have created several actions and form fields to use to help me sort through large pdfs. I need to be able to extract certain pages from large pdfs and then sort them chronologically. I have made custom stamps to extract the pages I want from a large document. The stamps I am using also have a form field which allows me to enter a date on the stamp. I have formatted the box as a date. What kind of coding can I use to rearrange the pages once I do the extraction, or during the extraction.
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Have you been able to extract the pages you have stamped?
Once the dynamic stamp has been applied there are no more form fields within the stamp, only a string of characters which is the value of the stamp's content. Do you understand how to read this data?
Will there be more than one stamp or annotation on a page?
This may be a very complex script an you might not get a free answer here.
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Yes I can extract the pages that I stamp. It extracts by searching for a specific string. There is one stamp per page.
The stamp I wish to sort prompts for a date input when it is placed.
I am very new to this so I do not understand how it stores this data in the field or how to sort a string.
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Once the stamp has been placed there no longer is any form fields in the stamp. You can read the contents of the stamp and with some advanced scripting locate the date string,
JavaScript does not sort fields but only variable arrays that can provide how the forms could be rearranged.
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