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total newbie in pdf forms - have a filled in pdf form, need to load

summa
Registered: Apr 25 2010
Posts: 24

total newbie in pdf forms - have a filled in pdf form, need to load into ms access database using vba and MS Access front end? Thanks in advance

daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Hi,

There is a wealth of information on this topic available here at AUC.
Thom Parker (thomp) has numerous posts spread through the Forums here.
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NK-INC.COM
Registered: Apr 17 2010
Posts: 93
Check out http://www.fdftoolkit.net, for information on how to extract data from a PDF sumbission, and save it to a MS Access database.

Here's an example on how to populate a PDF with an ADO.net dataset.
http://www.nk-inc.com/blog/post/2009/08/27/Populate-PDF-FDF-XDP-with-ADOnet-dataset-using-FDFToolkitnet.aspx