Change bulk text across PSD multiple files within folders

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January 9, 2023
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Heyoo,

I regularly have between 4 and 6 documents i need to work across that need bulk text changes that range from single words to whole paragraphs (it doesnt sound like a lot but there is regularly 20-40 comments and i'll need to do the changes across all docs, so end up doing the same thing mulitple times). Is there a way i can search and change the text across all open psd files instead of one by one? I've looked in other posts but cant quite figure out what to do (never needed to use the script function before).

Using PSD 2023 24.0.0

Really want to be able to steamline this so i can spend more time on actual art than text changes!

Thanks!

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Lumigraphics

Legend

If that simple snippet works you are good. If you need to preserve formatting, I have some sample scripts on my Dropbox for replacing text.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mg817g9a9ymbasi/AADTmXUVxmFfM58bcyYE7yiwa?dl=0

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

@Lumigraphics – Ah formatting... Looks like I forgot about that! :]

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Lumigraphics

Legend

Formatting is a huge PITA, frankly.

Michael Bullo

Community Expert

Do you want to continue to exclusively use Photoshop for these designs? Is there any chance you would consider placing your Photoshop files into InDesign documents? If so, you will get access to a huge array of text editing and updating options.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

The following example uses a hard-coded regular expression to change the isolated word dog to Cat in all text layers in all open documents.

// Replace text Dog with Cat in all layers in all open docs.jsx

for (var i = 0; i < app.documents.length; i++) {
    app.activeDocument = app.documents[i];

    var doc = app.activeDocument;
    for (var j = 0; j < doc.layers.length; j++) {
        try {
            doc.activeLayer = doc.layers[j];
            // Find = Dog, Replace = Cat
            // g = global, i = case insensitive
            if (app.activeDocument.activeLayer.kind == LayerKind.TEXT) {
                doc.activeLayer.textItem.contents = doc.activeLayer.textItem.contents.replace(/\bDog\b/gi, 'Cat');
            }
        } catch (e) {}
    }
}

More here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/javascript-find-and-replace-text-in-photoshop/m-p/10847173

And here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/find-and-replace-text-content-including-non-visible-layers/m-p/10978369

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