Find and Replace across multiple PDF files

Hello,
The company I work for has recently changed it's name from (for example!) "Rob's Company" to "Dave's Company".
I have a folder with several thousand PDF files where "Rob's Company" is mentioned and I want to find/replace this for "Dave's Company" in one job (as opposed to opening each file and doing a find/replace in each one).
I am happy to purchase a copy of Adobe Acrobat in order to do this, but I'm unsure if it is capable of doing so. I know it is possible to do this for individual files, but not sure that it can do a find/replace for all files in a particular folder.
I hope someone is able to assist me, I'd be very grateful.
Best wishes,
Rob

I totally agree with you regarding keeping the source files; it's common sense isn't it! I've only worked at this company for 14 days and the vast majority of docs are years old so it would be nearly impossible to trace back the owner of the document internally and then for who their contact is at the client who originally sent it over. With staff turnover you'd probably get nowhere pretty slowly!
Thanks very much for your redact suggestion. Is that basically where you "stick" new text over the old? The phrases to be changed are reasonably simalar in length (new text is 1 character smaller) so if there was a small gap at the end of the phrase I wouldn't loose sleep over it.
Thanks again for your help - as I say with just 14 days in the company it would be nice to get this job done without involving too many people so it looks good to my new bosses!
Rob

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dreamweaver.setUpFindReplace(findAndReplaceObject);
dreamweaver.replaceAll();
Place these HTML and JS files in this directory:
Dreamweaver App Directory/Configuration/Commands/
Then in Dreamweaver, open "Insert" window. (You need to have a HTML file open in order to make the Insert window active.) At the top of the Insert window there's a category dropdown menu ("Common" etc.). Do alt + click (ctrl + click) - then you'll see an item "Reload Extenesions" at the bottom of the dropdown. This will load this extension to DW. (Alternatively you can restart DW to load the extension.)
Now it's ready to run the Extension. Open a HTML document you want to modify. Go to "Commands" on the menu bar. At the bottom of the dropdown there should be an item "Find and Replace Test". Select and enjoy
Notes
This example is set to perform the Find and Replace on the current document. You can change the scope to the entire site, or the selected files, etc, just like in the Find and Replace dialogue box. The API doc is here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/dreamweaver/cs/apiref/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d117f9e09bcf-7ed a.html
You can use dreamweaver.setUpComplexFindReplace(xmlQueryString) command instead. xmlQueryString is basically <dwquery> ... </dwquery> in your .dwr files, you can copy from your .dwr files. However xmlQueryString needs to be one continuous string (no line breaks), which can be a pain The doc: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/dreamweaver/cs/apiref/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d117f9e09bcf-7ed 9.html
Command Extension general example in the doc: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/dreamweaver/cs/extend/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d117f53d6ec3-7fe 6.html
I hope all of these make sense...
Kenneth Kawamoto
http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/

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