Plugin for reading in PDF files

I have some plans to develop a plugin which allows users to upload PDF forms and parses data from that from these forms.

The use cases for this is as follows:
-the member candidates for the community are required to fill in a PDF form, which they email to the administrator. Then administrator uploads this form, which creates a new CB profile
-the members have an official PDF document, which they receive from a university. Users are required to submit this form when registering, and part of the data for the profile is read from this form.

PDF files are not saved in the profile.

Would someone else have any need for this kind of plugin?

So the plugin would be able to read the FDF data from the uploaded PDF, bind it to the user table, then discard the PDF template the data's attached to? Sounds like a great solution for form automation.

Yes, that is exactly for what I intend to use it for.

mikko

I just got the first demo working. The plugin can load in pdf files, can handle several different file structures and can read any text information from the file.

Due to several reasons (including not having full copyright) I cannot release this as open source. However, if someone is interested, PM me and I will see what we can do.

mikko

Yeah I am interested, please contact me through pm.

Best,
HK.