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user1912286

Reputation: 1

How to read the value of fields in signed PDF using PDF Box API

Once after completion of digital signature for PDF using DocuSign, How to read value of the fields in PDF using field ID/Name (using PDF Box API)? I am not able get the field ids of Digitally Signed PDF.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 553

Answers (1)

mkl
mkl

Reputation: 95918

The sample PDF showed that the fields in PDF are not PDF form fields after all, neither Acrofornm nor XFA, they merely are texts with some lines around them. (They may once have been PDF form fields which were flattened, or they may never have been PDF form fields to start with.)

Thus, your only option left is text extraction. PDFBox has a quite elaborate text extraction engine. Have a look at PDFTextStripper. You can try and use this class as is, looking in the extracted string for the field labels and extract the following text until the end-of-line; or if you have the time, you can try to make use of the internal PDF structure where the field contents are in a separate Xobject.

Upvotes: 1

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