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CTRL-F / Advanced Find for pages WITHOUT Content

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May 27, 2025 May 27, 2025

Good Afternoon Adobe Community,

 

Respectfully requesting the consideration of creating an Adobe PDF function that allows us to use CTRL-F or Advanced Search to find & mark all pages WITHOUT certain content.
This would be a great help for medical record verifications when trying to find all pages that DO NOT contain the patient’s SSN so it can be annotated. 
A feature like this would make military operations as well as hospital operations much more efficient as it would not just be isolated to SSN's but case-numbers or serial numbers just as well.  Something as simple as an exclude checkbox to hide pages containing the found content or alternatively a way to highlight all pages that do not contain the content being searched for would genuinely be a great help.

Thank you all for your time and have a great day.

 

Most Respectfully,

Shea

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Create PDFs , Edit and convert PDFs , Modern Acrobat , PDF , PDF forms , Scan documents and OCR , Standards and accessibility
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Adobe Employee ,
May 27, 2025 May 27, 2025

Hi @StereotypicalShea,

 

Hope you are doing well. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with Acrobat's word search.

 

We would really love to explore the feature more. 

Would you mind sharing this through our feedback/wish form: https://acrobat.uservoice.com/

 

This ensures your feedback reaches the engineering team directly for review and future implementation.


Regards,
Souvik.

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Community Expert ,
May 27, 2025 May 27, 2025

The tools aready exist in Acrobat to do this.  Some knowledge of the Action Wizard and JavaScript are required.  If you would like a quote to develop this, message me privately by clicking my icon and selecting "leave message".

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Community Expert ,
May 27, 2025 May 27, 2025
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Hello Shea,

   I you are interested in custom developement I would be happy to create such a tool for you. 

 

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScripting
Use the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

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