PDF Text Extraction - not working on 'Form Fields'

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I have a basic checklist in PDF format that has text fields that are static (User Name, Date, etc). and the form fields where data is inputted.

I upload the PDFs in a mediaset, convert the media set to table rows, and utilize "PDF text extraction’. The static text fields extract without issue but the PDF Form Fields are not extracting.

When I ‘print’ the PDF to a flat PDF, the text extracts but I would rather not have to include that additional step for users of this model. Is there a way to pull Form Fields or is there a way to ‘flatten’ the PDF?

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In the PDF text extraction transform, does changing the “Extract method” between Raw text and OCR help?

Also, in Code Repositories, this might help:
Transform a PDF document to extract form fields

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