Reading PDF form field data from Flex 4 ( via php or coldfusion )
- by Brian Russel Davis
Been searching web for an answer for this for a MONTH. I am not an expert in Coldfusion. So supposedly this is easy in CF -- but the mark-up confuses the HECK out of me. So here I am.
I have managed to import and read a PDF using the CF Proxy for Actionscript: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/754629?tstart=0 --- BUT --- After all my trouble there, the precious form filed information that I was looking for was not there in the PDF info object. GRRRR. So I am back to looking for a way to do this with CFC's or CFM's or PHP.
All I want is this:
Read the PDF from a Flex app.
GET the form field information.
WRITE a new PDF with the form field values.
I have found so many close but no cigar options ... and I have tried so many that failed. There are so many free PDF this and that out there. But Adobe seems to reserve the real functionality for themselves. All the free options don't seem to have access to the form data?
Anyways I am so exhausted with looking for ways to do this. I need help!