“Also, getting information into and out of spreadsheets can be clunky,” she adds. Once you’ve collected that data, a database is a much more powerful place to store it than a spreadsheet, writes Annie Pilon, a senior staff writer for Small Business Trends. This is important because data is essential for making better decisions, writes Nicole Fallon-Peek, cofounder and CEO at Lightning Media Partners: “You can easily collect data from customers, prospects, and leads by creating and distributing an online form that provides you with information to help you make data-driven decisions.” There are several reasons a business would want to submit PDF forms to a database rather than save them individually.įirst, turning PDFs into online forms makes data collection significantly easier. Here’s everything you need to know to submit a PDF form to a database. “Unfortunately, PDF documents do not come with an easy ‘PDF to database’ function which can be used to get hold of your data,” writes Docparser product manager Joshua Harris.Įxtracting data from a PDF doesn’t have to be difficult, though. Perhaps the biggest drawback of PDF documents is how hard it can be to get information out of them. Phil Ydens, vice president of engineering for Adobe Document Cloud, estimates there may be as many as 2.5 trillion PDF documents in existence.īut the file format isn’t without its share of issues. This tool adds four additional buttons to Reader: Import Form Data and Export Form Data.The PDF is a versatile and popular file format.
All without the need to purchase Acrobat or to apply expensive rights. If you wish to still gain access to this functionality (even if your version doesn't have these "ghost" buttons), but not lose an arm and a leg in the process, the solution is now available! Using this tool you can import and export form data in Reader in multiple formats, so it can be saved as a plain-text file and then edited, archived, sent to others, imported into Excel or a database, etc.
Some versions of Adobe Reader contain buttons labeled "Import Data" and "Export Data" for forms, but they are permanently grayed-out, unless the creator of the file applied a very special (and very expensive) right to it before distributing it. Update (): Added support for exporting the form data in the FDF and XFDF formats.
Update (): Now available, a free demo version of this tool that allows you to import or export up to three fields (in any of the available formats).
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