Hi,

I need some help for the web site that I am working on. This is asp.net website. Client is requesting to provide writeable PDF forms on this website for download. These forms will be downloaded by customers, they will fill in the required data on these forms save it and upload the forms back on the website.

Once uploaded we need to read whatever client has written in these forms and update in the database (SQL server). I have been going through adobe web site and lot of other web sites to understand this concept (as I have never done this). What I understood is, with Adobe LiveCycle designer and forms we can create writeable forms. However I have not got any idea or seen any documentation on how do I read the data that user has typed on these forms.

Reading of the data from pdf and saving into sql server, I have to do it in asp.net app.

Could anyone please help me understand how to achieve this.

Thanks a lot for you time.

 Refer these

http://studentclub.ro/lucians_weblog/archive/2007/03/22/read-from-a-pdf-file-using-c.aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/string/pdf2text.aspx

Thanks for these links. I have gone through these and understood that these methods are useful to read the pdf text, which (PDFs) are normally in read only format.

However, with the writeable PDFs (created using Adobe liveCycle Designers/Form) I am assuming there must be some other simpler way to read only the filled data from the PDF forms. Adobe on thier site has confirmed that the data can be read as xml or name/value pair. But I couldnt find any examples or any further information on how to read this data.

Typically my website user will download PDF Form from website, fill-in the required data, save a copy, upload it on the website. Now when they upload I want to read this information they have filled in to the form.

Does anybody have additional information or examples to refer.

Thanks for your time.