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POCan't export fields from certain pdfs with Javascript
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copied!<p>I have a directory of 30 or so pdf files, and 10 of them won't export their fields to a text file for me.</p> <p>I'm using the Javascript Editor in Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 in the Batch processing portion of the program.</p> <p>The program is very simiple it looks like this:</p> <pre><code>var fname = this.documentFileName; this.exportAsText(true, null, fname + ".txt"); </code></pre> <p>When I run it with the 10 files selected I should be getting a text file that has the same name as the document processed, but instead all I get is an error log that reads <code>Warning: no documents were processed</code> </p> <p>It doesn't give me any other reasons why I do not end up with an output file.</p> <p>I ran pdfinfo on a file that generated the results and a file that did not, they look pretty much the same and neither is encrypted:</p> <p>One that didn't work:</p> <pre><code>Creator: Adobe InDesign CS4 (6.0.6) Producer: Adobe PDF Library 9.0 CreationDate: Tue Dec 7 15:58:15 2010 ModDate: Mon Jun 3 12:11:12 2013 Tagged: no Pages: 5 Encrypted: no Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter) File size: 405476 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.6 </code></pre> <hr> <p>One that worked:</p> <pre><code>Creator: Adobe InDesign CS4 (6.0.6) Producer: Adobe PDF Library 9.0 CreationDate: Tue Dec 7 15:58:15 2010 ModDate: Wed Jun 12 08:44:05 2013 Tagged: no Pages: 5 Encrypted: no Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter) File size: 300702 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.6 </code></pre> <p>The only difference between them seems to be the field values.</p>

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