Convert PDF form to Normal PDF

OL Connect Professional Workflow
1

Hi,

Is it possible to convert a PDF Form to Normal PDF to use them into datamapper? A way to do that with workflow?

The text in the form fields don’t appear in the datamapper.

Thanks a lot.

2

You could try to export your PDF to a Postscript file and then rip it back to a PDF. It might flattened it and the field might be turned into text. Then again, I never tried it and do not have a current form to try it on.

3

How to export to ps? I tried to rename the file as ps and loading it in the datamapper and it doesn’t change anything.

4

When you are in Adobe, go to the file menu and select export to Postscript (not Encapsulated Postscritp which is an image).

Then save the new .ps file and double-click on it. If you have Adobe Distiller installed, it will make a PDF of it.

You can then import it into the Datamapper. If you do not have Adobe Distiller, then try the .ps directly in the Datamapper. If that doesn’t work, then I guess it is not feasable.

If you have OLCare, you can open a technical support call at 1-866-348-5863 or through our website. We will try to see if it is feasable with your PDF or not.

5

The following is always depending of the security setup in the PDF form.

Here is how we did it:

We have setup a Workflow process that receives the PDF form and send it through a Print using a Windows driver that is using the PlanetPress printer, where the form to use is setup as Auto-detect.

We then have a second process which has a WinQueue input looking at the output of the previous pocess, while having these as settings:

  • Spool Print Jobs in RAW Format
  • CreatePDF (with Metadata) checked
  • Optimize resulting PDF checked

The resulting “new” PDF is then sent to a Datamapper which can now see the customer added information as plain text in the PDF.