How to extract form field data from Static XFA PDF Forms?

[Ashish Sethi]

Hi,

Is there a way to extract form field data from static XFA PDF form using PDF::Reader gem?

Thanks!

-Ashish

[James Healy]

Hi Ashish,

Out of the box there's no helpers for extracting PDF Form data, but
it's possible to manually find most (all?) data inside a PDF.

I'm not particularly familiar with XFA PDF forms, however if you print
out the resources for a page and poke around, I suspect you'll find
some data.

require 'pdf/reader'

PDF::Reader.open("somefile.pdf") do |reader|
reader.pages.each do |page|
puts page.resources.inspect
end
end

James

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[Ashish Sethi]

Thanks, James!