Determine If Pdf Has Editable Text Fields

[grinder]

Hello there,

I looking for a method to determine if a PDF-file has editable text fields. Does anybody have something in mind? I searched "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroRd32Res.dll" with the com-viewer, but I couldn't find anything in this regard.

Thx in advance....

 

[Cringer]

You'd be better off asking this in an Adobe related forum to be honest.

 

[grinder]

I think so, just thought anybody in here also had this issue Thx anyway

 

[Jean-Christophe Cardot]

Hi
I'd go with pdfInclude...
Might be a little bit overkill though if the only thing you need is knowing the form has fields.
What else will you do with the pdf once you know it has fields (or not)?
Regards
JC

 

[grinder]

Hi JC, I just wanted to check if the file has editable fields because in the next step I use PDF-Combine to generate a big PDF-file. And PDF-Combine has its problems with editable fields.

 

[Jean-Christophe Cardot]

Then why not try to replace pdf combine by let's say pdftk?

 

[grinder]

Thanks, didn't know this tool yet. I just tried it and it works fine with standard PDFs. The files I want to merge are sent by another company and they are /pw protected
And PDFtk wants to know this /pw in order to merge these files. PDFCombine doesn't care about the /pw protection for merging so I didn't check this before.

It's no big issue, we have a workaround. Just thought someone has a quick answer

 

[Jean-Christophe Cardot]

If pdf combine does not ask for any password, then they must have a blank password haven't they?
You can "unprotect" them using qpdf (QPDF: A Content-Preserving PDF Transformation System). I think you can also use it to combine various pdfs. May be a better option in your case.

 

[joey.jeremiah]

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