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Have you already collated the data using Acrobat? If the forms were made in Acrobat there is a function within acrobat to collate the data into a dataset (essentially a database of results linked to a master .pdf from). This can all be done through the &quot;Forms&quot; tab.<br />
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You can then export it to CSV, XML etc.<br />
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Have you already collated the data using Acrobat? If the forms were made in Acrobat there is a function within acrobat to collate the data into a dataset (essentially a database of results linked to a master .pdf from). This can all be done through the "Forms" tab.

You can then export it to CSV, XML etc.



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The forms dribble in over a period of time in different offices in different countries.<br />
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Would like to be able to &quot;File Upload&quot; the completed PDF form and the PHP application extract the data.
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The forms dribble in over a period of time in different offices in different countries.

Would like to be able to "File Upload" the completed PDF form and the PHP application extract the data.

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Software; Acrobat 7 Pro - Server WindowsXP SP2, Apache 2, PHP 5.2<br />
Question;<br />
Our office staff have made a number of PDF forms for our customers to fill out.<br />
What we now want to do is have PHP read the form data without having to re key the data.<br />
In another part of the system we use TCPDF for PDF output ( but the forms are created by hand with Acrobat Pro 7 )<br />
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Software; Acrobat 7 Pro - Server WindowsXP SP2, Apache 2, PHP 5.2
Question;
Our office staff have made a number of PDF forms for our customers to fill out.
What we now want to do is have PHP read the form data without having to re key the data.
In another part of the system we use TCPDF for PDF output ( but the forms are created by hand with Acrobat Pro 7 )



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