ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VBScript – PDF XFA Form To XML

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ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VBScript – PDF XFA Form To XML

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PDF XFA form to XML in VBScript and ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

Write code in VBScript to make PDF XFA form to XML with this How-To tutorial

On this page you will learn from code samples for programming in VBScript. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK was made to help with PDF XFA form to XML in VBScript. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK is the Software Development Kit (SDK) that is designed to help developers with data extraction from unstructured documents like pdf, tiff, scans, images, scanned and electronic forms. The library is powered by OCR, computer vision and AI to provide unique functionality like table detection, automatic table structure extraction, data restoration, data restructuring and reconstruction. Supports PDF, TIFF, PNG, JPG images as input and can output CSV, XML, JSON formatted data. Includes full set of utilities like pdf splitter, pdf merger, searchable pdf maker.

You will save a lot of time on writing and testing code as you may just take the code below and use it in your application. In order to implement this functionality, you should copy and paste code below into your app using code editor. Then compile and run your application. Code testing will allow the function to be tested and work properly with your data.

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XfaFormToXml.vbs

      ' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.XMLExtractor object
Set extractor = CreateObject("Bytescout.PDFExtractor.XFAFormExtractor")

extractor.RegistrationName = "demo"
extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"

' Load sample PDF document
extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile "..\..\samplexfa.pdf"

' Iterate through content types. See type descriptions below.
For i = 0 To 12 

    count = extractor.GetCount(i) ' Get count of files of given type

    For j = 0 To count - 1
        extractor.SaveToFile i, j, CStr(i) & "-" & CStr(j) & ".xml"
    Next
    
Next

WScript.Echo "XFA form data has been extracted to XML files."


' XFAFormContentType enumeration:
'
' 0 - "config" type;
' 1 - "connectionSet" type;
' 2 - "datasets" type;
' 3 - "form" type;
' 4 - "localeSet" type;
' 5 - "postamble" type;
' 6 - "preamble" type;
' 7 - "schema" type;
' 8 - "template" type;
' 9 - "xfdf" type;
' 10 - "xmpmeta" type;
' 11 - "<xdp:xdp>" opening tag type;
' 12 - "<xdp:xdp>" closing tag type.