Check fonts in PDF documents

Hi
I have a PDF document with more than 700 pages. I want to make sure all the texts in document only uses 2 font familes (for example, Arial and Times New Roman). If there are texts using other fonts I'd like to know in order to change it.
In Adobe InDesign we have the Type > Find Font that is exactelly what I need (see the fonts in document, change them if necessary). Would we have in Adobe Acrobat Professional anything like this Adobe InDesign's Type > Find Font command?
Thank you very much
Gustavo.

Hey Gustavo
Try this ,
File>Properties>Fonts
From here you will see the various fonts used in the PDF.
Further what you can do is ,
Go to Tools>Content Editing>Edit Text and Images.
Select a particular text or a file and you will be able to see the font of that selected text.
Try this and see does that help.
Regards
Sukrit Dhingra

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