Replace Text in PDF Files. Use pdftk to uncompress PDF page streams. Pdftk original.pdf output original.clear.pdf uncompress. Replace the text (sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't). Repair the modified (and now broken) PDF. Pdftk original.clear.pdf output original.clear.fixed.pdf (from Joel Dare). Find and Replace all in a PDF File. Hi Experts, Is there a way to Find and Replace a particular Text / Phrase in an unprotected PDF Document while keeping everything else intact and save the file in PDF. Also is it possible to perform Wild Card Character like search in any such document.
![]()
Active2 years, 2 months ago
How would I be able to programmatically search and replace some text in a large number of PDF files? I would like to remove a URL that has been added to a set of files. I have been able to remove the link using javascript under Batch Processing in Adobe Pro, but the link text remains. I have seen recommendations to use text touchup, which works manually, but I don't want to modify 1300 files manually.
rpilkey
rpilkeyrpilkey
58011 gold badge77 silver badges1414 bronze badges
8 Answers
Finding text in a PDF can be inherently hard because of the graphical nature of the document format -- the letters you are searching for may not be contiguous in the file. That said, CAM::PDF has some search-replace capabilities and heuristics. Give changepagestring.pl a try and see if it works on your PDFs.
Chris DolanChris Dolan
7,43011 gold badge2727 silver badges6767 bronze badges
I have also become desperate. After 10 PDF Editor installations which all cost money, and no success:
pdftk + editor suffice:
Replace Text in PDF Files Caddx dl900 software download.
(from Joel Dare)
LarryLarry
Not sure I would want to do all the work to write the code to modify your 1300 files when there is a program that can do it for you. The other day, I used the Professional version of Infix to batch modify almost 100 files using its 'Find and Replace in Files' feature. It works great. I have evaluated other programs in hopes finding an find and replace functionality similar to Microsoft Word. Infix was the only one I found that can do it. Check out: http://www.iceni.com/infix-pro.htm
stirhalestirhale
You can use the 'redaction' feature in Adobe Acrobat Pro to find & replace all references in a single document in one step..not sure if it can be automated to multiple steps.
davrdavr
13.2k1616 gold badges6969 silver badges9696 bronze badges
I just finished trying out infix for a text that is comprised of text ladened with diacritics with the hope of generating another text where characters with double and composed diacritics are replaced by alternate with single diacritics. Infix is such definitely a good solution for someone who does not care for the trouble of understanding the working of programmatic solutions. All the request changes were effected. Still need to understand how to effect reflow of words that change the layout of text.
sobusolasobusola
This is just half a solution but I used Touch up combined with AppleScript's support for sending keystrokes to replace a string in thousands of table cells. Depending on how your pages are layout it could work for you. In my case I had to manually insert the cursor in the beginning of every table (tens of tables - quite manageable for a manual process) but after that i replaced thousands of cells automatically.
d-bd-b
The question is for a programmatic solution, but I will still share this free online tool which helped me mass replace text in some PDF files:
I did not notice any ads or other modifications in the resulting PDF files after replacing the text.
I was not able to make the changes locally with the software I tried. I think the main problem was that I was missing the font used in the PDF and it did not work properly, even with Acrobat Pro. The online tool did not complain and produced a great result.
DimitarDimitar
I suggest you may use VeryPDF PDF Text Replacer Command Line software to batch replace text in PDF pages, you can run pdftr.exe to replace text in PDF pages easily, for example,
pdftr.exe -contentreplace 'My Name=>Your Name' D:in.pdf D:out.pdf
pdftr.exe -searchandoverlaytext 'My Name=>Your Name' D:in.pdf D:out.pdf
Replace All In Pdf Free
pdftr.exe -searchandoverlaytext 'My Name=>D:tempmyname.png*20*20' D:in.pdf D:out.pdf
Adobe Pdf Repair Tool
pdftr.exe -pagerange 1-3 -contentreplace 'Old Text=>New Text||VeryPDF=>VeryDOC||My Name=>Your Name' D:in.pdf D:out.pdf
pdftr.exe -searchtext 'string' C:in.pdf
pdftr.exe -pagerange 1 -searchtext 'string' C:in.pdf
Replace All In Pdf Free
pdftr.exe -pagerange 1 -searchandoverlaytext 'Old Text=>New Text||VeryPDF=>VeryDOC||My Name=>Your Name' D:in.pdf D:out.pdf
pdftr.exe -overlaytextfontname 'Arial' -overlaytextcolor FF0000 -overlaybgcolor 00FF00 -searchandoverlaytext 'Old Text=>New Text||VeryPDF=>VeryDOC||My Name=>Your Name' D:in.pdf D:out.pdf
Season 1 sao episode 17 english dub. Sword Art Online II Episode 17 English Dub Online at cartooncrazy.tv. If Sword Art Online II Episode 17 English Dubbed is not working, please select a new video tab or reload the page. Previos Now Playing Next View All. Www1.cartooncrazy.tv CHAT. Latest Episodes. Aug 02, 2015 Watch sword art online season 2 episode 17 english dubbed online. SAO season 2 episode 17 english dubbed online.
Find My Pdf Files In Windows 10
pdftr.exe -opw 123 -upw 456 -contentreplace 'Old Text=>New Text||VeryPDF=>VeryDOC||My Name=>Your Name' D:in.pdf D:out.pdf
Find And Replace In Acrobat
pdftr.exe -searchandoverlaytext 'PDFcamp Printer=>VeryPDF Printer' -overlaytextfontsize 8 D:in.pdf D:out.pdf
pdftr.exe -searchandoverlaytext 'PDFcamp Printer=>VeryPDF Printer' -overlaytextfontsize 80% D:in.pdf D:out.pdf
MusicBeam is an open source software which enables you to use your home projector to create an entire laser show for your next party. MusicBeam is music triggered and allows you to adjust nearly every detail of the performance. Jun 27, 2017 Getting laser shows for ILDA software For performing laser shows, there are several options. The most common is the use of a laser show software like Pangolin QuickShow and Pangolin BEYOND, which is available as free ILDA software download. Both, QuickShow and BEYOND contain free laser shows, available by the build-in Pangolin Cloud Portal.
![]()
smithsmith
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged javascriptpdfreplace or ask your own question.Comments are closed.
|
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |