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[jira] [Commented] (PDFBOX-4989) How to change and replace text in
pdf
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Tilman Hausherr commented on PDFBOX-4989:
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It's not the correct place:
[https://pdfbox.apache.org/support.html]
PDF just isn't made for editing. What you want to do is extremely difficult or impossible, see here:
[https://pdfbox.apache.org/2.0/migration.html#why-was-the-replacetext-example-removed%3F]
But the page you link to also links to that explanation. There is also an answer somewhere in stackoverflow but I can't find it. Try opening the PDF in PDFDebugger and then look at the font, see which glyphs exist and at the encoding.
> How to change and replace text in pdf
> -------------------------------------
>
> Key: PDFBOX-4989
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4989
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Wish
> Environment: windows 10
> Reporter: Jürgen Debus
> Priority: Major
>
> Hi @all,
> First: I'm not sure if this is the right forum.
> If not, can you please tell me where to ask the question.
>
> We've used the text search and replace approach of Ulf Dittmer here:
> [https://www.ulfdittmer.com/view?PdfboxReplace]
> This worked fine.
> But because of changes in the PDF generating we get a crypted text that we can't replace:
> Example:
> Old: (sont liés. En cas de questions, consultez impérativement votre conseiller fiscal.) Tj
> New: (6"<.%S\)J:+d";,MO/$:;L+,+%:"L.:/+"<.%S+;JJ+/"I;S<$J3) Tj
> When using PDFTextStripper to read the text it is „translated" in the right way.
> What can we do to „decrypt" the text and save a new one?
>
> Best regards,
> Jürgen
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