I am using the action wizard and the built in Search and Remove Text action to mark certain phrases for redaction, moving to that page in javascript and adding a bookmark there. Unfortunatley I have to use variable names in the Search and Remove Text action that I read from a different file. I was wondering if there were a way to either add a variable to the Search and Remove Text action, or use the search and remove text action through Javascript, where I could use a variable?
As pointed out by Try67, the Redact Search parameters cannot be accessed from JavaScript. But the Redact Search does have an option for loading a list of search strings from a file. You could create a separate script for creating this file. So it'd be a two step process.
1. Run the tool to create the search list
2. Run the Redact Search, manually loading the search list.
Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScripting Use the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often
To clarify the second point, you can't actually call the Search & Remove Text command using JS, but you can mimic what it does using a script. The code for it will have to be written in full, though, and it's not a trivial task (especially not if the search terms are more than one word).
As pointed out by Try67, the Redact Search parameters cannot be accessed from JavaScript. But the Redact Search does have an option for loading a list of search strings from a file. You could create a separate script for creating this file. So it'd be a two step process.
1. Run the tool to create the search list
2. Run the Redact Search, manually loading the search list.
Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScripting Use the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often
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