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fayrehouse
Frequent Contributor
12 years ago

Anyone tried Adobe Acrobat API?

Hi All, Has anyone done any automating of Adobe Acrobat - ideally via API? In true Adobe style the API looks like it's more complicated than it needs to be. I basically need to ch...
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raul_sanchidria
New Contributor
11 years ago
Hi Tanya,



I'm having the same problem that Steve had months ago.



When I try to read the text of a PDF opened with acrobat reader, sometimes the object which contains the info I want is:



NameMapping.Sys.Process("AcroRd32").Window("AcrobatSDIWindow", "LAB0001_201407020808522 (1).pdf - Adobe Reader", 1).Window("AVL_AVView", "AVToolBarHostView", 1).Window("AVL_AVView", "AVSplitterView", 4).Window("AVL_AVView", "AVSplitationPageView", 3).Window("AVL_AVView", "AVSplitterView", 1).Window("AVL_AVView", "AVScrolledPageView", 1).Window("AVL_AVView", "AVScrollView", 1).Edit(0)



and sometimes it is:



NameMapping.Sys.Process("AcroRd32").Window("AcrobatSDIWindow", "LAB0001_201407020808522 (1).pdf - Adobe Reader", 1).Window("AVL_AVView", "AVToolBarHostView", 1).Window("AVL_AVView", "AVSplitterView", 4).Window("AVL_AVView", "AVSplitationPageView", 3).Window("AVL_AVView", "AVSplitterView", 1).Window("AVL_AVView", "AVScrolledPageView", 1).Window("AVL_AVView", "AVScrollView", 1).Edit("Alert: Document being processed.")



In the second case, I can not access information. I have seen that saving the settings of "Install extensions" I do access information of this object.



Would you know if I have to make any extra configuration?



I'm using acrobat reader 9.5.1.



Thanks in advance!