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mattm5562875
mattm5562875
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June 26, 2017
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Search and identify functionality.

  • June 26, 2017
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I am needing a process that can automate the Adobe search function and highlight/draw a box around found matching text in an existing PDF.  The red boxes in the image are how native Adobe handles it in the installed client.  I'd like to have this handled in the background from a web UI triggered process.

I am building an application in Oracle Application Express (browser based UI) however am willing to utilize a Javascript or Apache server solution to achieve this solution.

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try67
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try67Community Expert
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June 26, 2017

Do you want to add actual highlights/comments to the file, or just temporary "search results"? The former will require a stand-alone application. It can't be done with Acrobat. The latter can be done using the PDF Open Parameters.

mattm5562875
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June 26, 2017

Currently the end user open native Adobe, performs a search function and uploads a text file.  Adobe then highlights the found matches as provided above and spits out a new PDF in which gets printed.

My objective here is to take a library of existing PDF's, perform searches on demand and save the completed file back to the server/database.

Ideally all of this is handled on the back end and if the user desires to view the completed file then, I'll provide a link to that provided file at that time.

Joel Geraci
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Joel GeraciCommunity Expert
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June 26, 2017

If you want this to be done on a backend server then the only tool that has the features you need is the Datalogics PDF Java Toolkit. The technology is by Adobe and sold and supported through Datalogics. It's the only toolkit on the market that will create appearances for annotations, your highlights, based on the annotation properties like the word bounding box. It's also the only server tool on the market that will both assemble words out of some of the crazy PDF instructions and provide the coordinates of those words.  

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