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Text Extraction, Rendering and Converting of PDF Documents
https://docs.ropensci.org/pdftools
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Feature request: PDF form data #91

Closed wmay closed 3 years ago

wmay commented 3 years ago

I'd like to use poppler to extract form data, similar to the staplr function get_fields. The advantages of a poppler implementation would be

  1. It's much faster
  2. No Java dependency

@maelvls has an example at maelvls/read-form that makes it look pretty easy.

I think I'd be willing to submit a pull request if you're willing to add this to the package. (But my Rcpp is weak so it may take me a while.)

wmay commented 3 years ago

Oh, I see the form functions are part of the glib interface. Maybe this doesn't make sense after all.