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Modifying Sharepoint Columns while looking at documents

I have some PDF documents in a library (SP 2013). I want to be able to look at the PDF file and enter information taken from it into columns related to that document.

For instance, the file is a PDF of a petition. I want to be able to look at the petition and see that 8 people signed it, and enter "8" into the column named "Number of Signers".

I've done a lot of searching but I can't find any results. It seems like this has to be possible, so maybe I'm just not wording my search correctly.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

colly92002

If you want to do this by hand, simply create custom fields on your list and enter the data into those. Go to library settings->create column and add whatever columns you need.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Create-change-or-delete-a-column-in-a-list-or-library-2b0361ae-1bd3-41a3-8329-269e5f81cfa2#__toc243897106

You can do this automatically when a document is upload but this will take some custom code to create a handler. Here is a walkthrough (2007 version but should be the same in 2013)
http://blogs.adobe.com/mtg/2009/03/submitting-data-from-an-pdf-form-to-ms-sharepoint.html

Alternatively you could try a 3rd party product such as:
http://www.formrouter.com/pdf-forms-to-sharepoint/pdf_forms_sharepoint.htm

Walter Curtis

Open the file and the document in two different windows, on different monitors and modify the document library item as you read the pdf file.

Hope that helps...

GMC02108

ASKER

That was my initial thought, but when I click to open the PDF, it opens it in the same window (and actually takes over - all the SharePoint icons are gone. Is there somewhere to set it to have it open in a new window automatically?

colly92002

Open another browser, browse to SharePoint site and use ALT-TAB to quickly switch between windows.

GMC02108

ASKER

My worry about doing that is that the user entering the data could have a different PDF open accidently than the one they are trying to enter the data for.

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