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Interactive Data Entry and MS Access 2000

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2007-03-21 07:57:18
t_venet
Registered: Dec 13 2006
Posts: 12

I have a PDF form that was created prior to the interactive data entry capabilities that now seem to exist. I am aware that Acrobat Pro 8 alloww it to be scanned and that interactive data entry fields will more or less be generated on it w/ minimal user inputs. Once out of the way, what steps are taken to allow data entered into it by a single user to be captured in a MS Access 2000 (or possibly 2003) database on a PC?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
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2007-03-22 09:51:11
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thomp
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Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
Things aren't quite as easy as you think. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) of a scanned document is pretty good, but far from perfect. Auto from field recognition is a separate step and it is not so good. Both of these operations can save a lot of time, but you still have to check and fix the results.

Importing and exporting data into/from an interactive form is not automatic, or necessarily simple. However, if you use LiveCyle Designer to create the form, and are connecting to a local database you are in luck. LiveCycle has a wizard for walking you throught the steps to do this. Look at the menu on the "Data View" tab. There are also some examples and tutorials on the Adobe site.

[url=http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=330467]http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=330467[/url]

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