Capturing the data from an Adobe Acrobat form

OL Connect Professional DataMapper
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Hi,

I have a editable pdf form that is currently being used by our procurment team. Ideally I would like to make this the start of a workflow to allow indexing and some other processes. Whenever I try to map the form, the background form comes through but none of the information in the form fields.

Any advice on either how to get the information from the fields, or to flatten the image so get it through to the workflow?

Thanks in advance

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Probably printing the form to a printer queue and capture the spool (e.g. PlanetPress printer with PDF output).

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Such forms can be set to Submit to a web server, which could point to a Workflow process with an HTTP input to get the data. Of course if you go to that trouble you could go further and recreate the form as a web page served/processed by Workflow entirely.