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How to find a check box is checked or not?

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Posted on by UshaJyothiKasibhotla

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Hello

I have a PDF with data and check boxes

i need to find whether the check boxes are checked or not?

and i need to extract the different fields when different checkboxes are checked.

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Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

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The checkboxes are usually saved as images and do not get properly extracted by extracting the text in PAD. You need more advanced functionalities to do this - namely, AI builder in Power Automate.

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kinuasa 795 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi,
Another way to get the values is via PowerShell using an external library, e.g. PdfSharp.
(However, coding will be required...)

[void][Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\System\Lib\PdfSharp.dll") $doc = [PdfSharp.Pdf.IO.PdfReader]::Open("C:\Test\PDF\checkbox.pdf", [PdfSharp.Pdf.IO.PdfDocumentOpenMode]::ReadOnly) $fields = $doc.AcroForm.Fields $names = $fields.Names for($i=0; $i -lt $names.Count; $i++){ $field = $fields[$names[$i]] if($field -is [PdfSharp.Pdf.AcroForms.PdfCheckBoxField]){ Write-Output("Name:{0}, Checked:{1}" -f $field.Name, $field.Checked) } } $doc.Close()

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