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I've got a PDF made with Jotform which has fillable fields. Is there some easy way to extract just the data from those fields? I've looked around github but I haven't found a tool that can do that that is specifically for form data.

Do fillable PDF files have some easily extractable format that gives a key and a value for the form?

As a bonus, I'd like to also be able to write to that form as well.

My use case is going through a lot of fillable pdf's which are the same PDF but different values filled into the forms. I want to build a tool to display a single field value from all of the forms combined and then I can edit those form fields.

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  • Duplicate: Extract PDF Form Data Using JavaScript and write to CSV File Commented Jan 12, 2021 at 0:57
  • PDF ISO format defines XFDF, which is XML format that stores the key/value pairs you want. You could then use whatever pattern you like to convert from XML to JSON. Commented Jan 13, 2021 at 0:40
  • @Ouroborus that post doesn't answer my question. I don't want to have the pdf run any JavaScript inside of it. I want to get node to extract the data. Commented Jan 13, 2021 at 1:07
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