Find and Replace Japanese characters in pdf file on iPhone

Hi eveybody !
I want to find and replace Japanese characters in pdf on iPhone.
I using zlib to deflate stream - endstream block and extract text.It's work fine with latin-text.
But when i work with japanese characters , I don't know how to do it ?
I decode a sample japanese pdf file, and I know that each Japanese characters are performances as hex string : "<01b7><0e230a23>..."
But i don't know how to convert Japanese characters to the hex string like that.
Can evrybody help me?
Thanks!

Searching is the same process as extracting - since it's about turning page content into something understandable. So that still remains what you need to learn/understand - of course, referring back to all the previous sections about font formats, etc.
Replacing in PDF is EXTREMELY DIFFICULT for two reasons - subset fonts and explicit glyph positioning. Have you determine (conceptually, if nothing else) how you plan to addresses these two issues?
PDF doesn't do UTF8 for page content - so don't worry about that.

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You’re welcome, advice given here is free.
If you want to donate something nonetheless you could do so over at
http://ps-scripts.com/bb/
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</HEAD>
<BODY>
<form>
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</form>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Find and Replace Test.js
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You can process GREP, TEXT, GLYPH and OBJECT searches.
Purpouse
While creating books in InDesign with several documents we always come across some find change queries that need to be used again, and again, and again. To make this process easier you can just grab their names and put them into a list. The script will than try to process all your queries in one click.
prerequisites
make sure you have a toml file.
make sure the toml file is next to the script.
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make sure your fcqueries work right
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Mac OS Users[username]\Library\Preferences\Adobe InDesign[Version][Language]\Find-Change Queries[query type]
Windows XP Documents and Settings[username]\Application Data\Adobe\InDesign[Version][Language]\Find-Change Queries[query type]
Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\InDesign[Version][Language]\Find-Change Queries[query type]
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Thats it. Watch the magick happen.
TOML
Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language is a simple markup language that makes settings human readable. It is still in development and may change a lot. But still. It is a pretty easy language and can be learned by anyone.
The basic toml filer looks like this:
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# the MUST be there
do_text = true
do_grep = true
do_glyph = true
do_object = false
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# they have to be in one line
# the toml specs say you can break lines in arrays
# but the toml.js does not allow that at the moment
[text]
files = ["my_first_text_find_and_change","another one"]
[grep]
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[glyph]
files = []
[objects]
files = []
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CAN HAVE Settings
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Great script, it worked perfectly with grep, text, glyph, not only worked with OBJECTS, because I do the same operation and does not work. Can you give me a hand? Thank you.
In arquivo.toml is thus:
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do_text = true
do_grep = false
do_glyph = false
do_object = true
do_all_docs = false
# Now the file names
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# TomL the specs say you can break lines in arrays
# But does not allow the toml.js que momento
[text]
files = ["_OVER_BLACK_TXT", "_OVER_CORPROF_TXT"]
[grep]
files = []
[glyph]
files = []
[object]
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I just imported VCF file from Outlook to Address book. I am in Iceland and the Icelandic characters came wrong. Is there any way to batch find and replace characters in Address book? That is in individual cards.
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hi,
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here is what i'm heading towards:
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}the above code i just typed so there might be errors, but looks ok to me, is there any way once i find the string i want to replace, to replace the string with another string. basically i want to replace all occurrences of the text "Version 001" with "Version 002"
Thank you.

Is it always true, as in your example, that the replacement is the same length as the existing string? If so, this one's easy.
Is it also true that you don't need to worry about 16-bit chars? (Again, as in your example.) If you're using just ASCII characters, this gets easier still.
1) Segregate the file I/O from the search/replace process.
2) Main becomes:
readFile();
replace( "this", "that" );
writeFile();Use a byte array buffer, defined in your main class. Fill it via the readFile() code. Use a RandomAccessFile, check its length() to allocate your byte array, then do a single read() to fill the buffer.
A brute force search will certainly work: scan for the first search character, then check the rest for a match, replace if you've got a match and continue scanning. Alternative if your file's aren't too big: create a String from the byte array:
// buffer is a byte array
String s = new String( buffer );And use the String.replaceAll() to do the search/replace. Recover the buffer with:
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Finding and replacing (international??) characters

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�A L O E�
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Part of my problem is that these 'offending characters' are actually comprised of two chars:
eg:
'\u221a' + '\u00b4'
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

As such, when I open them in a flat file on my Mac I see the following:First you should open the file using the correct character encoding. Since the file originates from a Windows box, the encoding is probably Windows-1252, aka CP1252. You'll find the code for opening and reading here, just change "UTF-8" to "CP1252."
http://javaalmanac.com/egs/java.io/ReadFromUTF8.html
Next, you should not write non-ASCII characters in source code because it is not portable. If the source code is moved from one system to another, like from Mac OS X to Linux, the way the compiler translates bytes to characters may change. Only ASCII is safe, so it is better to use the portable Unicode escapes (\uXXXX) to represent non-ASCII characters in strings.
From Microsoft's own reference, the "smart" single quotes are U+2018 and U+2019: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/1252.mspx
so the code to replace them would be
text = text.replace('\u2018', '\'');
text = text.replace('\u2019', '\'');You would need to do the same for the double quotes, \u201C and \u201D
btw as there's a method for replacing charcters in the String class, you don't need to write a new one

VBA Word Find and Replace characters but excluding certain characters

I am trying to write VBA code in Word that I will eventually run from a VBA Excel module. The aim of the project is to find specific strings in the open Word document that have length of either one or two characters and are of a certain format, and replace
them with other strings in the same format. This is to do with transposing (i.e. changing the musical key) of chord symbols in a songsheet in Word. The Find and Replace strings are contained in ranges in an Excel workbook, which is why I want to eventually
run the code from Excel. I'm much more experienced in writing VBA code in Excel than in Word, and I'm fairly confident with transferring the 'Word VBA' code into an Excel module.
At the moment I'm trying out code entirely in Word, and I've come across a stumbling block. For example, I want it to Find "A" and replace with "B",
BUT only if the "A" is NOT followed by "#" (sharp) or "b" (flat).
Here is the code I've got in Word VBA, which I obtained by editing code produced by the recorder:
Sub F_R()
'Find text must have specific font
With Selection.Find.Font
.Bold = True
.Underline = wdUnderlineWords
.Superscript = False
.Subscript = False
End With
'Replacement text must have specific font
With Selection.Find.Replacement.Font
.Bold = True
.Underline = wdUnderlineWords
.Superscript = False
.Subscript = False
End With
'Find & Replace strings
With Selection.Find
.Text = "A" 'hard-coded here for testing, but this will
'eventually be referenced to a cell in Excel
.Replacement.Text = "B" 'hard-coded here for testing, but this will
'eventually be referenced to a cell in Excel
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = True
.MatchCase = True
.MatchWholeWord = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End Sub
For the Find & Replace section I want to do something like:
With Selection.Find
.Text = "A"
.Text <> "A#"
.Text <> "Ab"
.Replacement.Text = "B"
End With
- but this produces a syntax error, presumably because you can have only one .Text line (or it won't accept <>?)
I tried adopting the way of excluding chars when using the Like operator, and while it compiles, it will not replace
any "A":
With Selection.Find
.Text = "A[!b#]"
.Replacement.Text = "B"
End With
I suspect that I'm going to have to change tack completely in the way I'm doing this. Do you have any suggestions, please?
The chord names/symbols are preceded/succeeded by either spaces or paragraph returns and can look like these, for example (all Font Bold and Underlined words only):
C<sup>7</sup>
Dm<sup>7</sup>
Eb<sup>-5</sup>
Bb<sup>+11</sup>
F#m<sup>7</sup>
i.e. [ABCDEFG][b # | optional][m |optional][- + | superscript, optional][2 3
5 6 7 9 11 13 | superscript, optional]
The crux of my problem is that the note A should be treated as entirely distinct from Ab or A# (and similar for other flattened/sharpened notes).
Sorry for long post.

Hi Ian,
It is not easy to find Microsoft forums. However this forum is for the Visual Studio Net version.
Try this forum for VBA.
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=isvvba
Success
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