Replacing the same text string repeatedly with a new text string

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Replacing the same text string repeatedly with a new text string

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Dear community, my question:

How can I, for example, change the text string "Attachment A1" that appears repeatedly in a PDF document to the new text string "Attachment B1"?
This procedure is available in Acrobat using the "Find + Replace with" function.
Thank you for your support.

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Re: Replacing the same text string repeatedly with a new text string

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Hi, Change#2025

thanks for the post and excellent question.

We have "Find and Replace" but you need to click here to see it:

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then you get:

image(1).png

Does that help?
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⚜ Kenny Lemens, P.E. ᵂᴵ
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Re: Replacing the same text string repeatedly with a new text string

Post by ⚜ Kenny Lemens, P.E. ᵂᴵ »

Greetings,

If you are running an older version, you will not have the 'search and replace' option. However, if you DO have a newer version, below is how the replacement would work:
PDF-XChange_SearchReplace.png

This will work for both flattened text, as well as annotations.


May this be of Good Help;
⚜ Kenny Lemens, P.E. ᵂᴵ
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Re: Replacing the same text string repeatedly with a new text string

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Hello, ⚜ Kenny Lemens, P.E. ᵂᴵ

Thank you for the added details kenny!

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