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How to access to the fields/data of a pdf birt report

Laurent240

Hi,

I generated a PDF report file with BIRT and I would like to know how can I access to the fields of that report (with an other program) and fetch the value of these fields ?
Thanks.

Regards,
Laurent

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kclark

I haven't tried this but iText might work for you. You can create some java code to read the fields in a PDF with some code like this.<br />
<br />
<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("your_file.pdf");
AcroFields fields = reader.getAcroFields();
System.out.println("Value of Employee_ID:
"+fields.getField("Employee_ID"));</pre>

Laurent240

Yes but the fields of my reports are not 'editable fields' but simply labels or dynamic data.
Is there a possibility to use iText for these kind of fields ? Thanks.

kclark

Do the fields you want to read from have a fixed length of a max length? You could read the PDF to a string and then find the index of the field you're wanting + the length of the data. Depending on how many fields you have this could work for you. How many fields are you trying to access?