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GroupDocs.Parser allows to parse form data from PDF documents.

To extract PDF form data please call the parseForm method:

DocumentData parseForm();

This method returns an instance of DocumentData class with the extracted data.

Here are the steps to parse form of the document:

• Instantiate Parser object for the initial document;
• Call parseForm method and obtain the DocumentData object;
• Check if data isn’t null (parse form is supported for the document);
• Iterate over field data to obtain form data.

The following example shows how to parse a form of the document:

// Create an instance of Parser class
try (Parser parser = new Parser(Constants.SampleFormsPdf)) {
    // Extract data from PDF document
    DocumentData data = parser.parseForm();
    // Check if form extraction is supported
    if (data == null) {
        System.out.println("Form extraction isn't supported.");
        return;
    }
    // Iterate over extracted data
    for (int i = 0; i < data.getCount(); i++) {
        System.out.print(data.get(i).getName() + ": ");
        PageTextArea area = data.get(i).getPageArea() instanceof PageTextArea
                ? (PageTextArea) data.get(i).getPageArea()
                : null;
        System.out.println(area == null ? "Not a template field" : area.getText());
    }
}

To learn more about document data extraction features and get familiar how to extract text, images, forms and more, please refer to the advanced usage section.

You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:

• GroupDocs.Parser for .NET examples
• GroupDocs.Parser for Java examples

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