Hi All, We have a requirement, where a secured PDF is sent to APPIAN

nikitar over 9 years ago

Hi All,

We have a requirement, where a secured PDF is sent to APPIAN and we need to extract data from the PDF. As the PDF is secured I am unable to extract the data from PDF using the function getpdffields().

Could you please suggest a solution to the above issue.

Thanks in Advance.

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0 Eduardo Fuentes
Appian Employee
over 9 years ago

You will have to create your own custom function to do that if the existing plug-in on Forum doesn't support that. You may want to research online what libraries compatible with Java allow you to do that.

The PDF Tools plug-in you are referring too uses the Apache PDFBox library which seems to be capable of opening secured PDFs. Simply research online how so you can create your own custom smart service or enhance the PDF Tools.

A quick web search gave some useful links:

stackoverflow.com/.../how-to-load-a-password-protected-pdf-form-using-pdfbox
stackoverflow.com/.../remove-encryption-from-pdf-with-pdfbox-like-qpdf
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