Automating Report Writing with Microsoft Office

Question

I write compliance reports for work. I fill in a PDF form and click 'Yes' or 'No' to indicate whether the company is in compliance with a particular statute. I would like to have this form autopopulate my compliance report in Word with the company's name and the appropriate findings and corrective actions. Is this possible? If not, can I achieve this using other Microsoft Office applications? Thanks!

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible, but PDF viewer itself cannot run arbitrary code for security reasons. If you organize things with certain conventions, then, after you make a change to PDF, you can save it, and then run another script which would then do what you want. I would recommend Python as the scripting language.

Please tell us more about your compliance reports - are they currently open as you change stuff? Can they be re0built from scratch or only updated with relevant changes?

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