Help editing rectangles in PDF using automation in vb.net

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May 5, 2016
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Hello, I have a PDF generated by a utility that erroneously creates extra rectangles within the page. I would like to search through all objects in the generated PDF, see if it is a rectangle of a certain size, and delete it. I have looked at examples in the SDK download and can't seem to find examples using PdEdit, although I have read that those examples are in there.

Can anyone provide any guidance on how this might be possible using vb.net and my acrobat reader pro? I have a large number of files to process.

Any guidance or examples of code would be fantastic. I am a fairly new programmer.

Thank you very much for your time!

Acrobat SDK and JavaScript

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lrosenth

Adobe Employee

The interfaces/APIs available to VB don't include PDEdit support. You need to use C/C++ for that.

Karl Heinz Kremer

Community Expert

And when lrosenth says C/C++, he means that you have to write an Acrobat plug-in using C/C++ - it's not sufficient to just have an external C/C++ application to use these APIs, you can only use them within an Acrobat plug-in (which adds a quite a bit of complexity to such a project).