>>I know you are very good with HTML so perhaps if you convert to HTML you will be able to easily parse it
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdftohtml/>
>Yes, that is a venue I have considered.
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>>But if you will need to fill in data I strongly suggest you convert the PDFs to proper forms with fields and use iTextsharp to fill them.
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>For now, I have sent a request to know if the PDF form can be adjusted so to be standard. If yes, I would be able to use this library.
You may already know this but it was new to me when I started working with PDF Forms. The form can be created to be "fillable" so a user can fill in data and the data and the form are basically in separate layers. the problem, I think , is that the form cannot be saved that way. I think websites put up forms in that state and then have code to suck out the data, essentially leaving the blank form.
But in order to save a filled out form you have to "flatten" it, kind of like in Photoshop when you merge the layers.
It is possible that they sent you flattened forms - the result of a filled out form - but actually have the form in "fillable" format, which would show the fields and they could send you those.
I think the Adobe website may have a forum where you could find out what the options are to use fillable forms.
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