Will Appian's upcoming IDP Application support fillable PDFs document?

Will Appian's upcoming IDP Application support fillable PDFs document? 

Last I checked with Google Support, and available Google OCR and Google Vision they do not support OCR on the fillable PDF field. The PDFs have to be externally flattened (lose the fillable fields) and then passed in order for Google OCR or Vision to extract entities from those fields. Will this be handled by the IDP application or this has to be handled outside the application. Also, if it has to be handled outside the IDP, what is the best way to convert fillable PDF to flat PDF? I didn't find any smart service in the Appian that readily does this. 

Thank you.

Gavin Dias.

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  • Hi Gavin - 
    IDP aside, it sounds like you're facing unnecessary complexity. 
    Were it me, I'd look to the owner of the PDF to  provide an unlocked PDF template.  Using a copy of Acrobat (not reader, but the full version), you should be able to access the field properties and configure them.  Even when the PDF is fillable, and the fields are mapped, it's not uncommon to run into duplicate field ID values which lead to unexpected behavior when filling with PDF tools.

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