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Posted by Bill Segraves on 02/20/07 21:32
"Perks" <andyperks@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1171997526.586622.284300@t69g2000cwt.googlegroups.com...
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> Hi Bill.
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> Yes, indeed Google helped me come across Pdftk in my research, but
> unfortunately I cannot use this as it falls under GPL, and my end
> solution would be for a system that I unfortunately could not likewise
> GPL, and therefore counts this out of the running (hence my need for a
> lesser licensed library or indeed no library at all - DIY style :-/).
Andy, it appears your reasoning may be flawed, i.e., you want to parse a PDF
with PHP in order to discover the names of the form fields. You really don't
have to parse the PDF to determine the names of the form fields, as you can
"submit" (as HTML - URLencoded name=value pairs) the PDF form to a script
that will do the parsing for you, transforming the form data into an HTML
form.
A script to parse the form data can be written in about one line of code,
exclusive of various decalrations, in Perl. I don't know how many LOC it
would take in PHP.
Cheers,
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Bill Segraves
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