Copying text boxes from a pdf to another

Question

Hi,

I'm currently working on a big batch of files following the same template. Each file has a text box containing personal information (kind of like a header), that I have to manually copy and paste from a source document into a different one. This is obviously -very- time consuming, so I'm wondering if there's any way to automate it. I thought maybe the text box position could be mapped, either through X/Y position or creating tags of some sort to replicate it, but I haven't been able to advance much in this idea.

Thanks in advance for any help 🙂

PDF Automation Station · Answer

Does "text box" mean static text, form field text, or text box annotation?  If it's static text you can crop the page to the box where the text appears, pull all the words from that area, then reverse crop the page to put it back the way it was.  You can then insert the words into another document.  You set up an action to automate the entire process.

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