Pulling Data from PDF's

Do you mean that there is an actual form field for the address, or that there is just a consistent location on the page where the address appears.

If there is an actual form field then yes, of course, this data can be easily extracted.

But if you mean the address is just in a specific location, it takes a little bit more work, but it can be done. There is a function in Acrobat for getting words from the page, "doc.getPageNthWord()" and a companion function for getting the word's location, "doc.getPageNthWordQuad()". Together these functions can be used to extract information from a specific location on the document.

Not a trivial scripting Job.

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
[url=http://www.pdfScripting.com]pdfscripting.com[/url]

The Acrobat JavaScript Reference, Use it Early and Often
[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/[/url]

I mean that there is a consistent location on the page.

How would you suggest I go about the scripting? This is really my first time jumping into something of this nature with Professional Acrobat.

Thanks for responding.

Scripting the extraction of the addresses from the PDF will save you unbelievably enormous amounts of time. What might take you weeks to do by tedius hand transcription, will take only a couple of hours with JavaScript, and all you have to do is push a button.

So, it is well worth the effort to spend a few days writing the script. However, if you are not already a programmer you need to hire a programmer. This is not one of those easy copy and paste programming task, and requires a bit of knowledge about PDF page geometry.

Pop me a note and I can give you a recomendation.

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
[url=http://www.pdfScripting.com]pdfscripting.com[/url]

The Acrobat JavaScript Reference, Use it Early and Often
[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/[/url]

furniturealliance, if you're looking for such a script, contact me by email.