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It’s a PDF, not a web app.
by yunohn 4y ago
It’s a PDF, not a web app.
- adg001 4y agoNot a big deal. You can edit a PDF programmatically, a la pdfcpu [0] or similar. [0] https://pdfcpu.io/generate/create https://pdfcpu.io/generate/create
- watersb 4y agoPDF can embed scripts, but I haven't done this in a long time and I imagine that apps-in-PDF would expose wonky unmaintained code paths in a renderer. https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/applying-actions-scripts-pdfs.html https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/applying-actions-scrip... Also search for "PDF JavaScript"...
- napier 4y agoYour point is? Various methods exist for running OCR on PDFs and then parsing the data and transforming it for structured input into other systems. Could be a periodic sync to the middleware; i.e. daily or at user's preference via emailing the doc.