Search & Replace Text

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Does QuickPDF Library supports Search & Replace Text function? 
For example, I want to search for [This information is For:] and replace it with person's name.

Thanks,
Pranav...

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pranavs Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 30 Jul 12 Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote pranavs Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Search & Replace Text Posted: 30 Jul 12 at 9:29PM
	Does QuickPDF Library supports Search & Replace Text function? For example, I want to search for [This information is For:] and replace it with person's name. Thanks, Pranav...

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3529	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 31 Jul 12 at 6:59AM
	Hi Pranav! You can try the embedded text extract funcionalities. There are options to get informations like used font, fontheight, fontcolour and the whole text coordinates while extraction, too. So you can extract the text page by page, search for your text and with the draw functionalities you can fill the background on the same coordinates with white colour and on the same position you can write your new text. This you can do with QuickPDF. This is not a real search and replace but it looks like ;-) Cheers and welcome here, Ingo

AndrewC Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 08 Dec 10 Location: Geelong, Aust Status: Offline Points: 841	Post Options Post Reply Quote AndrewC Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Aug 12 at 11:10AM
	PDF files are not designed for Search and Replace which is why most libraries only allow you to add / append commands to an existing PDF file. There are some options. 1. DrawText(x,y, text) - but you would need to know where the text is. 2. Use form fields and then you can flatten their contents. If you are loading existing PDF files that you have no control of then you may be out of luck. Andrew.