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Once you have installed PyPDF2, you should be all set to follow along. You can use pip to install this library by executing the code below. Being Pure-Python, it can run on any Python platform without any dependencies or external libraries. PyPDF2 is a Pure-Python library built as a PDF toolkit. I will be using PyPDF2 for the purpose of this article.

There are several Python libraries dedicated to working with PDF documents, some more popular than the others. My objective to write this article is to develop such a guide. While there is a good body of work available to describe simple text extraction from PDF documents, I struggled to find a comprehensive guide to extract data from PDF forms.

I work for a financial institution and recently came across a situation where we had to extract data from a large volume of PDF forms. As a result, there is a large body of unstructured data that exists in PDF format and to extract and analyse this data to generate meaningful insights is a common task among data scientists. It is widely used across enterprises, in government offices, healthcare and other industries.

PDF or Portable Document File format is one of the most common file formats in use today. Your form field data will then be sorted and organized in Excel and you can continue working with the excel sheet as you normally would.Photo by Leon Dewiwje on Unsplash Introduction.Select the option to open the file as an XML Table.Go to File->Open and then locate the XML form field data export that you created and open the file.Select the location that you wish to save the XML file on your computer and then click Save.On the menu bar go to Forms->Export Forms->XML.Open the document that you wish to export the form field data.Below are instructions on how to export form field data as an XML and viewing them in Excel.Įxporting Form Field Data as XML in PDF Studio Q: How can I export the form field data in a PDF document into an excel spreadsheet? For example, I want to export all of the contact information fields so that I can sort them in excel.Ī: PDF Studio (version 9 and higher) has the ability to export form field data into multiple formats including XML which is compatible with Microsoft Excel.