# How to extract records from an ACORD form to a JSON format

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**Category:** Flows\
**Tags:** helper-functions\
**Created:** [April 4, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.synatic.com/t/how-to-extract-records-from-an-acord-form-to-a-json-format/201 "2022-04-04T16:31:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![navessa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/community.synatic.com/navessa/32/58_2.png) [@navessa](https://community.synatic.com/u/navessa)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.synatic.com/t/how-to-extract-records-from-an-acord-form-to-a-json-format/201/1 "2022-04-04T16:31:13Z")

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It takes a standard ACORD PDF and uses it to extract records **from an ACORD PDF form to a JSON format**.

**NB: All data processing is currently conducted in the US region, subject to change.**

Illustrated in the below image, a pass through step is used as a reader source step.

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/uploads/synatic/original/1X/19841a745411131083ee5802695be89734f8a8b1.png)

The below image is how the **ACORD OCR destination step** looks. In the “From Field”, it can return all the fields by default if it’s left blank or it can return a specific field if specified.

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/uploads/synatic/original/1X/ca46ba9bbcd15c6688c20980ef24dc1bab0d06f8.png)