Copying Data In PDF Documents

Am I missing something? Sometimes I am able to copy text and numbers out of certain PDF documents but not others. Is there a "lock" on the data and is there a way to get around this?
Thanks in advance.

>Is there a "lock" on the data
Maybe. Or they could possibly be a scanned document so there wouldn't be any "data" to copy.

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I have a current pdf document created in Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Professional. At the bottom of each page, I would like for the current date to be displayed whenever someone prints a copy of the document. Can anyone give me an easy way to do this? I added a footer thinking originally that it would automatically update to the current date but I see that it doesn't. It just displays the date of the last update. Thanks.

First, Reader can not add form form fields or water mark by JavaScirpt. This means one can not add a watermark reliably before printing, so one needs to use a form field, and that form field needs to exist before the PDF is opened by Reader. You need to add a 'read only' form field to each page of the PDF and if you give them all the same name, you only need to change the value of one of the form fields. There is no way to add a footer by JavaScript.
There are a number of ways to change the value of the field before printing so if you want the date the form was sent to the printer, you will use the 'Will Print' document action to change the value of the field which will cause the field to be updated when any 'print' is requested from Acrobat's menu, Acrobat's tool bar, or an added button field. And you will have to add a custom JavaScript that obtains the date object, formats the date object, and sets the value of your field object.
The referenced link is to JavaScript that adds the field and the necessary JavaScript to work.
You can cut and paste the following into the script for the 'Will Print' action:
// get the field
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Copy Data From PDF

Hi,
I having an WD JAVA application where a filled in Interactive PDF Form is upoaded through File Upload UI.
In the appliocation, there is a local node (Cardinality = 1:1) where the Data from PDF has to be copied to that.
Please let us know how to do that without parsing.
Thanks and Regards,
Chandran S

Hi,
If you want to get the data from PDF form without parsing you need to do binding of all the fields of addobe form to webdynpro context.
You must be having a application for saving the pdf form to your system so just open the form in Interactive form Ui element and after selecting the UI element from adobe form go to binding tab under object tab. Bind the field with the proper context in default binding section. But first make sure that your dataSource property of the Interactive form element is bind with the datanode.
In that way after uploading the form data will come to webdynpro context automatically.
Thanks & Regards
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Add current date to PDF documents

This doesn't seem like it should be hard, but I have been unable to find information on how to do it.
I have about 100 PDF files. Somewhere on them, I need to display "Date Printed: dd mmm yyyy", and have the current date displayed.
I don't care whether this is placed at the top of the page, the bottom, or opaque in the background.
I would like to be able to accomplish it using the batch command, but will perform manually if necessary.
I have Acrobat 7 Professional.
Can someone please help me out?

Hi Everyone - Thanks to Dimitri, I was able to do exactly what I wanted to do by using the following code: // Check for existing field and make sure it's on the first page var strModName = "DocMessage"; var ofield = this.getField("DocMessage"); // Create Field if it doesn't exist if(ofield == null) { // Field is the width of the page, on the bottom of the page // and 40 points high (72pts/inch) for(var i=0;i<this.numPages;i++) { var rectField = this.getPageBox("Crop",i); rectField[1] = rectField[3] + 14; // Set Top ofield = this.addField({cName: strModName,cFieldType: "text", nPageNum:i ,oCoords: rectField}); ofield.alignment = "center"; //This is the text alignment of the field ofield.multiline = true; ofield.textSize = 8; ofield.textFont = "Arial"; ofield.display = display.noView; //This is hidden on the page but printable to make viewable change to display.visible or noView ofield.readonly = true; } } // Add Field to Document Script var strJS = 'var ofield = this.getField("DocMessage");'; strJS += 'ofield.value = "Intellectual Property of My Company - CONFIDENTIAL. ";'; strJS += 'ofield.value += " Document printed " + util.printd("ddmmmyyyy",new Date()) + ".";'; this.addScript("AddMessage",strJS); However - Now I would like to change the message to say that the document expires on a future date. For example, 14 days from today. I found an example of how to do this on page 266 of the Adobe JS Scripting Guide and have followed it to the letter, but it is not working. Here is the modified code: // Check for existing field and make sure it's on the first page var strModName = "DocMessage"; var ofield = this.getField("DocMessage"); // Create Field if it doesn't exist if(ofield == null) { // Field is the width of the page, on the bottom of the page // and 40 points high (72pts/inch) for(var i=0;i<this.numPages;i++) { var rectField = this.getPageBox("Crop",i); rectField[1] = rectField[3] + 14; // Set Top ofield = this.addField({cName: strModName,cFieldType: "text", nPageNum:i ,oCoords: rectField}); ofield.alignment = "center"; //This is the text alignment of the field ofield.multiline = true; ofield.textSize = 8; ofield.textFont = "Arial"; ofield.display = display.noView; //This is hidden on the page but printable to make viewable change to display.visible or noView ofield.readonly = true; } } /* Create a date object containing the current date. */ var d1 = new Date(); /* num contains the numeric representation of the current date. */ var num = d1.valueOf(); /* Add fourteen days to todays date, in milliseconds. */ /* 1000 ms/sec, 60 sec/min, 60 min/hour, 24 hours/day, 14 days */ num += 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 14; /* Create our new date, 14 days ahead of the current date. */ var d2 = new Date(num); // Add Field to Document Script var strJS = 'var ofield = this.getField("DocMessage");'; strJS += 'ofield.value = "Intellectual Property of My Company - CONFIDENTIAL. ";'; strJS += 'ofield.value += " Document expires on " + util.printd("ddmmmyyyy", d2) + ".";'; this.addScript("AddMessage",strJS); The resulting output is simply: "Intellectual Property of My Company - CONFIDENTIAL." The part of the message regarding the expiration date doesn't even show up. Anyone have any suggestions?

Using a formatted search which incorporates copying data from base document

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I have a user selling tiles. They sell by sq meter but will only sell whole boxes. I have a formatted search on the quantity field to calculate the number of sq meters in a box. They also sell indivudual units and will key this value directly into the quantity field. All this works fine.
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Use another Web browser! There are confirmed problems with IE8 and Firefox. Opera works just fine, and I am assuming since Google is 'tea-bagging' just about everyone (or everyone is 'tea-bagging' Google, I'm not really sure) that it probably works in Chrome. There! Problem solved! Adobe sucks!

You can create a script that will lock the fields before signing. But when you edit the document after the student signs, the signature will no longer be valid and the document will show that it has been changed after signing. Adobe restricts the number of files you can collect information on with forms that can be saved and emailed. The restriction used to be 500 files unless you purchased the appropriate LiveCycle product to enable the pdf files for saving.
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I am having problems copying tables of numbers from pdf's into excel in Acrobat Standard 7.0.8. I am finding that when I select data in a table, right-click, and select 'Copy As Table', only about 50% of the time will the data be pasted correctly into appropriate rows and columns in Excel. The rest of the time the all of the data is pasted into a single cell making it impossible to work with.
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Add hidden data to pdf

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but plugin can read these data
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to where?
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I read 32000 but in sdk I don't know use which function or layer
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I just find this
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is this correct ?

Create a pdf document with an expiration date.

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Why a pdf document with embedded fonts can be copied but is not searchable in pdf reader

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I figured the app might have that ability - considering you can add text, highlight, add a signature, annotate and draw - so my thought was why not delete a page, or rearrange for that matter?.. That should be an option, this way we don't have to export to one of the other apps to delete or rearrange..
Thanks for the help, Bernd.
BTW if anyone is looking - PDF Max can do all of the above and delete and rearrange. With PDF Splicer you can delete and rearrange as well, but it has no other features.
And as for Steve Werner whose comment was deleted after it got to my inbox, it is much more than a Reader, as you can plainly see from the amount of tasks the Reader app can do above.

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Hi,
I'm pretty new to this...
I have a PDF document and when I print it, I want the printer's name and the date/time of print to be showed on the printer's output.
I have several printers (some local and some on network) and don't necessarly use the default one. I would like the name of the printer used, to be printed on the document.
With var h = this.getField("Printer"); h.value = app.printerNames; I'm able to get the list of all printers available but I just need the one used.
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I'm more interested in the printer's name.
I use Acrobat Pro 9 to edit my PDF document.
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Thanks!

This project was left aside for a while... but it's now finished!
Thank you for the answers. It was helpful.
Here is a step-by-step of what I did (using Adobe Acrobat 9.5.1):
Open PDF document in Acrobat
Select Forms -> Add or Edit Fields
Add two text fields: one called "Today" for the date and one called "Printer" for the printer name
Close the form editing
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The date and printer name field will be automatically updated when you print the document!

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know one can buy expensive programmes like from Adobe, but I use it so little that I would like a cheaper solution. Freeware would be great, shareware also.
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No way to do that using the OS (although the entire pdf can be encrypted, once the password is applied the document is open for copying/printing).
However, the freeware PDFLab does allow password protection, the 'owner' pw allows full access, the 'user' pw can be restricted for printing, copying, etc:
http://www.iconus.ch/fabien/pdflab/
This can also be done with Adobe's Create PDF Online, but the above is free, and works well.
Hope this helps...

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