Help with Script to Delete page with "word" and the page before.

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Hi everyoneI got a PDF generated from another software. It creates pages that i don´t want/or can't print.I need help with a script that can search for words (going to be about 5 different words) and delete the page containing one of that words and the page before.I found a script here but it only deletes the page that contains the word.I´m also not sure how to add multiple words without coping the whole script and type a new word.Using this script nowfor (var p=this.numPages-1; p>=0; p--) {     for (var n=0; n<this.getPageNumWords(p); n++) {        if (this.getPageNthWord(p, n) == "WORD") {            this.deletePages(p);        }    }}Anyone got any good ideas to help me?

try67 · Answer

- Are the words that you're searching for just single words, or do you mean that you want to search for a phrase?

If they are just single words then you can create a complex if-statement, something like this:

var word = this.getPageNthWord(p, n);
if (word == "WORD1" || word == "WORD2" || word == "WORD3" || word == "WORD4" || word == "WORD5") {
    // add current and previous pages to the list of pages to delete
}

- I recommend you use an array where you hold all the page numbers to be deleted and then use a separate loop (again from the last page to the first one!), where you delete all the pages from that array.

Also, to make your code more efficient I recommend that when you encounter one of the words you're searching for you stop the internal loop and decrease the value of i by 1, to skip the next (ie, previous) page, because there's no point in searching it if you already know you're going to delete it, is there?

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