Adobe COM, edit a word

[Vh_]

Hi,

I have a script to read words in a PDF, but I need to edit one. These are not in fields like typical PDFs might have. Any idea on how to do that?

This was my attempt. Here is a document for references https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/5186AcroJS.pdf

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#SingleInstance, Force

source:=A_Desktop . "\1.pdf"

PDDoc := ComObjCreate("AcroExch.PDDoc")
PDDoc.Open(source)
JSO	:= PDDoc.GetJSObject
w=0
Loop 1000
    {
		Word := JSO.GetPageNthWord(0, w, 0)
		
        If (InStr(Word,"Plate"))
		 	{
                 w--
                 Word := JSO.GetPageNthWord(0, w, 0)
                 msgbox, % "Before: " . Word
                 JSO.SelectPageNthWord(0, w, 0).Value := "Bowl" ;didn't work.
                 PDDoc.Save(1,source)
                 Word := JSO.GetPageNthWord(0, w, 0)
                 msgbox, % "After: " . Word
                 exitapp
            }
        W++
    }
exitapp

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks,
Vh

[FanaticGuru]

I have a script to read words in a PDF, but I need to edit one. These are not in fields like typical PDFs might have. Any idea on how to do that?

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#SingleInstance, Force

source:=A_Desktop . "\1.pdf"

PDDoc := ComObjCreate("AcroExch.PDDoc")
PDDoc.Open(source)
JSO	:= PDDoc.GetJSObject
w=0
Loop 1000
    {
		Word := JSO.GetPageNthWord(0, w, 0)
		
        If (InStr(Word,"Plate"))
		 	{
                 w--
                 Word := JSO.GetPageNthWord(0, w, 0)
                 msgbox, % "Before: " . Word
                 JSO.SelectPageNthWord(0, w, 0).Value := "Bowl" ;didn't work.
                 PDDoc.Save(1,source)
                 Word := JSO.GetPageNthWord(0, w, 0)
                 msgbox, % "After: " . Word
                 exitapp
            }
        W++
    }
exitapp

I believe you are going to have real problems doing this. I do not believe that Acrobat through the API or JaveScript supports editing the text outside of fields.

FG

[Vh_]

Thanks for the feedback. I will abandon the project.

[FanaticGuru]

Thanks for the feedback. I will abandon the project.

Depending on the PDF it might be possible to convert the PDF to Word, edit the Word document, then convert back to a PDF.

This should all be possible programmatically through COM.

If the PDF is fairly straight forward, the results could be satisfactory. I tested converting a few PDFs to Word and back manually and the results looked acceptable in my test. Converting and back is pretty invasive though so it really depends on the complexity of the PDF.

FG