Find text in pdf

I need to develop a plugin that search for some text into the document, then when I found a particular string I need to examine the page where the text is found, and I need to export all the page as TIFF and also exporting all text in a text file.
I suppose that I use the PD Layer. Anyone can give me a brief list of the function I have to use?
Alk.

The PDE layer is not recommended for finding text because
* it is not broken into words
* it may not be in reading order
* there is no encoding conversion
This means that you will only sometimes find text based on a simple
scan of PDEText elements.
In reading about AVConversion realise that there are two things being
documented.
1. How a plug-in can provide new formats for conversion to or from
PDF. You do not want this.
2. How a plug-in can use an existing AVConversion handler to convert
to or from PDF. This is what you want.
Aandi Inston

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Okay, so I'm certain that this question has been asked and answered a hundred times, but for some reason my googling skills are seriously failing me today...
I have a legacy application built in VB6 that generates PDF documents of a particular form letter. Each PDF contains all of the form letters that were printed on that particular day. I actually have it all working rather decently, but something came up a little while ago that set me on a new programming obsession. I want to enable the following functionality from my application:
The user provides a text string that should be unique among all pages of all PDF's (customer ID).
The application then finds the PDF that contains that text string and identifies which page number contains that text string.
Finally, send only that page to the printer.
Currently I can easily create, display and print the PDF from my application. While the creation of the document is done through a third-party reporting system, all display and printing functions are basically handled using AcroPDF.dll. Going through the available properties and methods for an AcroPDF object, I see that I can tell it to print only specified pages, which gives me the last part of my requirements, and I've got the user input part down pat. I'm just totally stumped at finding a solution for "step 2".
Any suggestions, ideas or comments would be greatly appreciated. I'm kinda tired of banging my head against a wall. Thank you for your time.

If you are only using Adobe Reader, then that feature isn't available.
If you have Adobe Acrobat, then you have a few options.
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Subject: AcroPDF in VB6 - Find text in PDF and print that page.
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Find Text not finding text in PDF

I am using Acrobat 8 on Mac OS 10.5.8. and creating PDFs from InDesign by exporting (using our own custom settings, but fonts are embedded, etc).
In the resultant PDF, when I search for a particular term, that I know is in the document, it either:
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Finding text in a PDF using preview has stopped working (correctly).
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The problem is that you use special graphic state operators inside text objects which is not allowed:
BT
/printmatic_F1 58.133398014634 Tf
q
/DeviceCMYK CS
1 1 1 1 SCN
/DeviceCMYK cs
1 1 1 1 scn
0.62060289801053 w
0 J
0 j
2.189349112426 M
0 Tr
/printmatic_F1 58.133398014634 Tf
1 0 0 1 86.448306387737 264.65046258267 cm
(t) Tj
Q
q
/DeviceCMYK CS
1 1 1 1 SCN
/DeviceCMYK cs
1 1 1 1 scn
0.62060289801053 w
0 J
0 j
2.189349112426 M
0 Tr
/printmatic_F1 58.133398014634 Tf
1 0 0 1 102.60939103581 264.65046258267 cm
(e) Tj
Q
q
/DeviceCMYK CS
1 1 1 1 SCN
/DeviceCMYK cs
1 1 1 1 scn
0.62060289801053 w
0 J
0 j
2.189349112426 M
0 Tr
/printmatic_F1 58.133398014634 Tf
1 0 0 1 134.93156033194 264.65046258267 cm
(x) Tj
Q
q
/DeviceCMYK CS
1 1 1 1 SCN
/DeviceCMYK cs
1 1 1 1 scn
0.62060289801053 w
0 J
0 j
2.189349112426 M
0 Tr
/printmatic_F1 58.133398014634 Tf
1 0 0 1 163.99825933926 264.65046258267 cm
(t) Tj
Q
ET
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Can't find text in distilled file, using some fonts

The products I have are Mac OS 10.6.8, Acrobat X and 9, and Word 2011 and Apple Pages for Mac; Acrobat 9 and Word 2007 for Windows XP.
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This might not be a problem with Distiller per se; it could be the Mac OS engine that creates the PS files. You see, I had heard that Apple used their own internally developed engine for the options to save PDF files directly, but was using Adobe code when one used the option to write a PostScript file, so that's why I'm so surprised and disappointed it fails.

tlmurray23 wrote:
The reason why I care about this is because the distilled PFDs are just a tiny bit better looking on the screen than other options, such as "Save as PDF" from the Mac OS Print dialogue. The only other one that looks as good is the Create PDF button in Windows Word, but I would rather not have to use Windows just to get a better-looking PDF.
Hmmm. In what way are Distilled PDFs "a tiny bit better looking on screen" than those made by OS X?
You are viewing both in the same app and platform?
And you're referring to font display?
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tlmurray23 wrote:
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Writing PostScript for printing uses Apple's own cgpdftops CUPS filter. I doubt there is any "Adobe code" as such, and I dispute the implication that "Apple code == bad; Adobe code == good", which you seem to suggest.
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I have a script that find text and replaced it with a image, but it makes a new document and i want it in the same document that i have open.
Can somebody help me with this problem. See script below. I work with Indesign CS 5 mac.
Kinde regards,
Patrick
#target indesign
var myDialogResult = CreateDialog();
if (myDialogResult == undefined) exit();
CheckIfChosenFoldersExist();
var myIndFiles = [];
var mySubFolders = [];
CheckFolder(myDialogResult.indFolder);
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var myStartFolder = myDialogResult.imagesFolder.parent;
mySubFolders = getSubFolders(myStartFolder);
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alert("All done!");
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                    var myFile = new File(myFolder + "/" + myName);
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                    var file = fileList[i];
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          for (var i = 0; i < myFileList.length; i++) {
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                    myIndFolder = Folder.selectDialog ('Chose a folder for InDesign documents');
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                              myIndFolderStTxt.text = myIndFolder.fsName;
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                    if (myImagesFolder != null) {
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                    if (myIndFolderStTxt.text == "No folder has been selected") {
                              myIndFolder = null;
                    else {
                              myIndFolder = new Folder(myIndFolderStTxt.text);
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                              myImagesFolder = null;
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                    myRadSelected = 3;
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                    myResult.indFolder = myIndFolder;
                    myResult.imagesFolder = myImagesFolder;
                    myResult.myRadSelected = myRadSelected;
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          myFile = new File("~/Desktop/Place Images Report.txt");
          if ( myFile.exists ) {
                    myFile.open("e");
                    myFile.seek(0, 2);
          else {
                    myFile.open("w");
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          myFile.close();
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          var myDate = new Date();
          if ((myDate.getYear() - 100) < 10) {
                    var myYear = "0" + new String((myDate.getYear() - 100));
          } else {
                    var myYear = new String ((myDate.getYear() - 100));
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                    err("No folder has been chosen for InDesign files.", true);
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                    if (!myDialogResult.indFolder.exists) {
                              err("Folder \"" + myDialogResult.indFolder.fsName + "\" chosen for InDesign files does not exist.", true);
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                    err("No folder has been chosen for pictures.", true);
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                    if (!myDialogResult.imagesFolder.exists) {
                              err("Folder \"" + myDialogResult.imagesFolder.fsName + "\" chosen for images does not exist.", true);

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// Stile Paragrafo applicato
var myPStyle = myDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Normal");
var NextPStyleCS = myDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Par_Style");
var NextPStyleEN = myDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Par_Style_en");
var NextPStyleDE = myDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Par_Style_de");
// Text style applied
var myCStyle = myDocument.characterStyles.item("text");
//Object style applyed
var myOStyle = "";
var oStyle_1 = myDocument.objectStyles.item("Pictures");
var oStyle_2 = myDocument.objectStyles.item("Pictures");
var oStyle_3 = myDocument.objectStyles.item("Pictures");
//MEASUREMENTS
var maxWidth = 467; //Maximum width of an image
var maxHeight = 666; //Maximum Height of an image
var colWidth = 468; //Width of the main columb (340pt) + maximum Tab (128pt)
var maxTab = 0;
var xTab;
var xtTab;
var minTWidth = 340; //any image with a width below this will have the maximum Tab (maxTab) applied.
var PWidth; //Width of the Picture
var PHeight;//Picture Height
var myTotal;

How to change text in PDF doc. which is a musical score

Hello,
I'm new here, so please excuse me if I do or say something I shouldn't.
I need to change the words in a musical score because the font is too small. OCR recognition doesn"t work because there are illustrations that are different from images or text... Is there a way to get in there and make the changes I need to do?
Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the reply, but I have Adobe Reader 9 Pro. Will it still not
work ?
Le 29 sept. 2011 à 29 sept. 11 - 16:09, Claudio González a écrit :
Re: How to change text in PDF doc. which is a musical score
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Unfortunately, not with the free Reader.
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