Add hyperlinks to pdf with script

Hello,
We have some pdf's in which we would like to add hyperlinks to a bunch of specific words. We would like to do this with a script.
Just, I have no clue on how to do this with Adobe Acrobat. For the Word documents I can use VBA...
Could somebody help me?
Thanks!

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