I’ve read some of the posts on here, but it wasn’t that helpful.
I’m mentioning this in advance because if you are planning on sending me links to pervious posts, I hope they will have some relevance to the topic at hand.
Basically, I have a set of medical forms like the one provide as example below and have to fill in the boxes with relevant details. Its in PDF format(and no there are no form fields) and the end user uses Adobe Acrobat to click and drag text files over the area they want to enter text into.
In UiPath, I can see that we have activities to read and process PDFs, but none to write back to said PDFs. Has anyone encountered scenarios like this, and if so what solution did you propose?
I would really appreciate your help and support on this - thanks in advance! @ppr@Yoichi
Hi @ashwin.ashok
From my experience the best way to accomplish this is by using UiPath’s Computer Vision (CV) activities in a PDF editor. Follow these steps:
Open the PDF
Launch the PDF in your default browser (e.g. Chrome/Edge) or in Acrobat, so that all text-tools are visible on screen.
Wrap the whole sequence in a CV Scope activity.
Click the “Add Text” (T-tool) icon
Use CV Click on the toolbar’s “Add Text” button.
This puts Acrobat/browser into text-entry mode.
Click into the target box
Use CV Click on the approximate area of the PDF where you want to insert your text.
Acrobat will pop open a floating text editor at that spot.
Type your value
Use CV Type Into (inside the same CV Scope) to send your data (e.g. provider name, date, etc.) into the editor.
Commit the text
Finish by clicking anywhere outside the text-editor (another CV Click) so that Acrobat commits the text onto the PDF.
