Question Re: convert PDF to XML in Technology Q&A

convert PDF to XML

sachin_s_panchal — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 05:38:42 GMT

Hi All,

I have a editable PDF(interactive adobe), and need to convert it to XML format. can you please provide some guidance as this adobe form is new for me.

For example:

http://foersom.com/net/HowTo/data/OoPdfFormExample.pdf

Can you please let me know how should I approach this.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Sachin

Re: convert PDF to XML

Florian — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 05:57:28 GMT

Hi Sachin,

I don't get the point. What do you have at the moment. Is the PDF generated from your SAP-System? There is a lot content avialable, which explains how to handle those data. When the pdf is not from your system generated, where does it come from and why don't you get a xml-version from the beginning.

Report

FP_PDF_TEST_03 is extracting data from a form.

~Florian

Re: convert PDF to XML

sachin_s_panchal — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 04:55:46 GMT

Hi Florian,

Thank you!

Sorry for the late response.

Actually my requirement is, I have a some Adobe forms in one SAP system now as we are moving some functionalities to a new SAP system. I have to update some fields in the PDF from the new system.

The approach I was following is this: Make forms interactive and get the RAWSTRING of pdf. Send the RAWSTRING data to new SAP system via IDOC. Convert the rawstring to XML update the necessary fields.

But I was unable to convert it to readable XML format. I have checked FP_PDF_TEST_03 program for my requirement but the XML has only field names not the values.

Can you please let me know how I will get the values in XML?

Regards,

Sachin

Re: convert PDF to XML

sachin_s_panchal — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 08:56:39 GMT

Anyone has solution for this???

Re: convert PDF to XML

matt — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 08:08:16 GMT

The editor has a tab allowing you to examine the XML directly. You can even edit it.