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PDF to HTML5 conversion – Getting form values from HTML5
If you use our PDF2HTML5 convertor to create HTML forms and it will copy across the current values. But what if you want to collect the values from an HTML form? The simplest solution is to use HTML5 to send … Continue reading
PDF to HTML5 conversion – form names
When we create an HTML5 form from a PDF file we have a choice of how we handle the form names. We can either use an autogenerated value, or we can use the name of the Form from the PDF. … Continue reading
Understanding PDF forms – FDF structure
This is the fourth part of the Understanding the PDF forms series, and in this article we start to explore the FDF Forms Data Format. If you missed the first in the series please read it here http://www.jpedal.org/PDFblog/2011/05/understanding-pdf-forms-introduction-to-fdf-forms/ Before we … Continue reading
Understanding PDF Forms – introduction to XFA Forms
This is the third part of the Understanding the PDF forms series, and in this article I aim to introduce you to XFA forms, the XML Forms Architecture. So how do you find XFA forms in a PDF? As with … Continue reading
Extracting text references from a PDF file
JPedal is used for alsorts of extraction tasks. A recent request was from a client who wanted to extract the references and text from a PDF file. Here is what you need to do to achieve this and some sample … Continue reading
