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Re: collectdata


  • Subject: Re: collectdata
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2017 10:52:43 +1100

On 3 Mar 2017, at 11:20 pm, Julien Battist <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Before I dive dieper in this I would like to know the best approach to grab data from a pdf file.(with eg. Acrobat Pro)
>
> Intention is to grab 2 regular expressions:

Acrobat Pro scripting does not support that directly. You would probably have to extract all text, search on that, then use the found values in a literal search.

> Then color the hits in the pdf file and save the pdf file to identify whether the regular expression has been found (manual visible check later).

I suspect you are going to be out of luck there, too, short of using GUI scripting. Acrobat's scriptability is rather limited.

--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>



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