Save a multi-word search parameter used daily on recurring reports

[Dustin35358964nxs6]

Hi community,

I receive a daily transaction report that lists purchases from the previous day. My task is to review the purchases assigned to my division, as each purchase lists the employee number of the staff member that made the transaction.

I have a long list of employees, so cross referencing employee numbers from my staff list vs the transaction log is extremely tedious. I am trying to catch instances where an employee from a different division has been erroniously charged to my division.

My vision of what I want to acheive:

1. Open the transaction log PDF

2. Run a search that contains my list of employee numbers (search "match any of the words")

3. Highlight all instances of matches to my employee numbers list in the document

This way, if a transaction is logged under my division and the employee number is not highlighted, I know that employee number does not belong to my division. I can then proceed to have the charge re-assigned.

Any thoughts on this? I imagine it requires a script. I have not done scripting in Adobe PDF, but I am familiar in excel... if that's remotely similar!

Thanks in advance. 

[try67]

Yes, it's possible using a custom-made script, but if you had Acrobat Pro you could do it much more easily (and faster) using the Search & Remove Text tool. You can specify to it a list of search terms, and use a simple script to convert the Redaction annotations it creates to Highlights. If you only have the free Reader this option is not available to you, though.

[Dustin309233824z3u]

Immising Adobe Acrobat Standard. I looked around but it appears the options you speak of are not included. Unless im not looking in the right places?

[Bernd Alheit]

It is part of Acrobat Pro.