Want to extract document metadata and doc info via a script

[ipolans]

I'm not a Javascript nor Java programmer so I might be missing one or more steps.

Looking at the Javascript info I have I see the following code:

var r = new Report();

r.writeText(this.metadata);

r.open("myMetadataReportFile");

save("/c/myreport.pdf"));

The code doesn't seem to be working when run from the console. If I execute "this.metadata" I get the information that I expect. This suggests that the problem is with report creation and or saving the document.

I haven't yet figured out how to get information out of the Doc Info dictionary.  This is another need.

NOTE: In both cases (XMP and DocInfo) we're adding CUSTOM metadata.

Ideally I'd like to save both sets of information XMP and DocInfo as XML . This way we can run a comparison between the two.

Finally whatever code I end-up with needs to be able to run in the Action Wizard over about 10,000 files. If the input file is "file.pdf" the output should be "file.xml"

Thanks.

Ira

[ipolans]

Thanks for the recommendation of Notepad++. I'm not sure if my IT department will let me add it.

I did discover, as you hinted at, that the problem does lie with "saveAs". If you change the code to "com.adobe.acrobat.accesstext" I get the new lines as I need. NOTE: Previously the converter ended in in "plain-text".

Thanks again.