Process to extract comments from PDF

[AKloft]

Greetings,

I need to extract comments from PDF during a process workflow.  Will exporting metadata alone work?  If not, could someone please point me in the right direction?

I'm not enitrely sure where the comments reside (written, sticky notes, stamps, etc.).

Thanks in advance,

Alex

[Hodmi]

I don't think the meta-data will give you th annotations layer of the PDF.  You'll probably need to use Assembler's invokeDDX service to export the comments into a n XFDF file (an XML representation of the comments)

The instructions should be in the DDX Reference:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/ddxRef.pdf

something like:

<Comments result="doc1comments.xfdf" format="XFDF">
<PDF source="doc1.pdf"/>
</Comments>