dump_data_fields_utf8

Print PDF form field data in UTF-8

Usage

pdftl <input> dump_data_fields_utf8 [output <output>]

Details

Extracts data from all interactive form fields (AcroForm fields) within the input PDF, identical to the dump_data_fields operation, with one difference: all string values (such as FieldValue or FieldOptions) are written as raw UTF-8. No XML-style escaping is applied.

This output is for informational purposes. It is not designed to be read by the update_info or update_info_utf8 operations.

For a complete description of the stanza format, see the help for dump_data_fields.

Examples

Save form field data for in.pdf to data.txt

pdftl Form.pdf dump_data_fields_utf8 output data.txt

Tags: info, forms

Source: pdftl.operations.dump_data_fields

Read online: https://pdftl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operations/dump_data_fields_utf8.html

Type: Operation