skips invisible form fields

[jelizarovas]

If a field is set to initially hidden (even though can be changed visibility with custom calculation script:

if (this.getField("needsWeight").value == "Yes") {
event.target.display = display.visible;
} else {
event.target.display = display.hidden;
}

These fields (hidden ones) will not be parsed, and you will not get any data on them (coordinates, names, etc.)

Was this intended and is there a way to enable hidden field parsing?

[jelizarovas]

async function testp2j() {
  const fs = require("fs"),
    PDFParser = require("pdf2json");
    const cuid = require("cuid");

  const pdfParser = new PDFParser();
  pdfParser.on("pdfParser_dataError", (errData) => console.error(errData.parserError));
  pdfParser.on("pdfParser_dataReady", (pdfData) => {
    fs.writeFile(`../build/${cuid.slug()}.json`, JSON.stringify(pdfData), () => {
      console.log("Done.");
    });
  });

  pdfParser.loadPDF(filePath);
}

See the following form
invisibleForm.pdf

Output is:

[...]
 "Pages": [
    {
      "Width": 38.25,
      "Height": 49.5,
      "HLines": [],
      "VLines": [],
      "Fills": [],
      "Texts": [],
      "Fields": [
        {
          "style": 48,
          "T": { "Name": "alpha", "TypeInfo": {} },
          "id": { "Id": "Visible", "EN": 0 },
          "TI": 0,
          "AM": 0,
          "x": 11.599,
          "y": 13.964,
          "w": 10.707,
          "h": 1.876
        }
      ],
      "Boxsets": []
    }
  ]
[...]

But if i change second field to visible i get this output:

[...]
"Pages": [
    {
      "Width": 38.25,
      "Height": 49.5,
      "HLines": [],
      "VLines": [],
      "Fills": [],
      "Texts": [],
      "Fields": [
        {
          "style": 48,
          "T": { "Name": "alpha", "TypeInfo": {} },
          "id": { "Id": "Visible", "EN": 0 },
          "TI": 0,
          "AM": 0,
          "x": 11.599,
          "y": 13.964,
          "w": 10.707,
          "h": 1.876
        },
        {
          "style": 48,
          "T": { "Name": "alpha", "TypeInfo": {} },
          "id": { "Id": "Hidden", "EN": 0 },
          "TI": 1,
          "AM": 0,
          "x": 11.388,
          "y": 21.836,
          "w": 11.29,
          "h": 2.188
        }
      ],
      "Boxsets": []
    }
  ]
[...]