How to: Export Interactive Form Data to XML

• Apr 08, 2019

Important

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This example shows how to export AcroForm data (interactive form data) from a PDF document to XML format.

You can also export the AcroForm data to FDF, XFDF, and TXT formats.

Note

A complete sample project is available at https://github.com/DevExpress-Examples/how-to-export-acroform-data-to-xml-t491302

Program.cs

using DevExpress.Pdf;

namespace ExportInteractiveForms {
    class Program {
        static void Main(string[] args) {

            using (PdfDocumentProcessor processor = new PdfDocumentProcessor()) {

                // Load a PDF document with AcroForm data. 
                processor.LoadDocument("..\\..\\InteractiveForm.pdf");

                // Export AcroForm data to XML format.
                processor.Export("..\\..\\InteractiveForm.xml", PdfFormDataFormat.Xml);
            }
        }
    }
}

Program.vb

Imports DevExpress.Pdf

Namespace ExportInteractiveForms
    Friend Class Program
        Shared Sub Main(ByVal args() As String)

            Using processor As New PdfDocumentProcessor()

                ' Load a PDF document with AcroForm data. 
                processor.LoadDocument("..\..\InteractiveForm.pdf")

                ' Export AcroForm data to XML format.
                processor.Export("..\..\InteractiveForm.xml", PdfFormDataFormat.Xml)
            End Using
        End Sub
    End Class
End Namespace