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Maruan Sahyoun resolved PDFBOX-740.
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Resolution: Not A Problem
In order to replace a string actions must be taken if the string is separated
into multiple pieces within the pdf which is totally valid. As such the
ReplaceString.java code is a simplified example of how one could replace a
string within a PDF.
> PDF Replace String
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>
> Key: PDFBOX-740
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-740
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Text extraction
> Affects Versions: 0.7.3
> Environment: Windows Server 8 - 64 Bit version, JDK 1.4.2_16
> Reporter: Naga Kishore Vankayala
> Priority: Critical
> Labels: PDF, Read, Replace, String
> Attachments: TestPDFTemplating.java
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>
> Hello Sir,
> We are facing an issue with one of our current requirement which is to read
> content from one of the PDF document which has some placeholders in it. These
> placeholders are required to be replaced with new values and the then to save
> the document in PDF format with these new values. We have looked at the class
> ReplaceString.java which provides this functionality of replacing a single
> string in the adobe document, but we will not be able to use this class as we
> have approx 15 strings to be replaced. We are looking for a functionality
> which can help us to replace these 15 strings once the file is read and
> before saving the file with new string values. We have tried the following
> approach, we looked at the source of ReplaceString.Java file and used the
> source code to replace the multiple strings, what we have observed during
> debugging that while reading the document the returned token contains only
> the random portion of the placeholder string and not the complete word
> (sometimes it contains first 3 characters of the word and sometimes last 4
> characters of the word); we never get the token with complete placeholder
> word or string. We are using JDK 1.4.2_16 version on 64 bit windows system.
> Any help to realize the required fucntionality is highly appreciated.
> Thanks and Regards,
> Naga Kishore Vankayala
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