Re: find text in Acrobat
Re: find text in Acrobat
- Subject: Re: find text in Acrobat
- From: RJay Hansen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 14:38:17 -0500
Yeah, I've run into that too.
Googling shows javascript will probably work in this situation so I may have to look in that direction.
Thanks Ed.
RJay
On May 5, 2015, at 2:23 PM, "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden> wrote:
> This script fails here.
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> tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
> tell document 1
> set myFoundText to find text string "News" with whole words
> end tell
> end tell
> Return myFoundText
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> The return line errors out with "The variable myFoundText is not defined."
> meaning that no result is returned from the script.
>
> The word it searches for appears numerous times in the PDF file.
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> Ed Stockly
> LA Times
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>> Does anyone know if "find text" in Acrobat Pro works? Google doesn't
>> yield much on this (or I haven't figured out the right search terms to
>> use), but it seems pretty straightforward. From the Acrobat dictionary:
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