Using a tablet to input data and take photos on a form

Question

I examine vehicles which involves taking photos.  I want to be able to creat a form where I can fill in text boxes and drop down menus as well as click on a seperate box that allows me to take a photo of the relvant part of the vehicle and import that photo directly into the pdf form.  Any ideas on what product would be able to do this?
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Answer 1

It can be done if you use Readdle's PDF Expert instead of Adobe Reader. It it probably the best PDF viewer available for iOS, but it is not available for Android. I don't know of a way for this to work on an Android. So your options if you want to use a PDF form with a tablet are PDF Expert on an iOS device or Acrobat/Reader on a Windows device.
The method I'm proposing is the buttonImportIcon method. When triggered, it prompts the user to import a file to be used as the appearance (icon) for a button. In PDF Expert, it allows you to select an image from the camera roll. In Acrobat, you can use any file type that Acrobat knows how to convert to PDF, which includes all common imag formats. In Reader 11 (not available in previous versions) it allows you to select a page from a existing PDF, so any images would have to first be converted to PDF.
The script you can use with a button can be as simple as the following Mouse Up JavaScript:
// Import a button icon
event.target.buttonImportIcon();
That's really the minimum, but you can add additional code to handle the return value and detect the PDF viewer that's being used. The documentation is here: http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.737.html
The button needs to be set up in Acrobat so it the right size and location, and have a Layout that's something other than "Label Only".