Javascript Typewriter Tool in Acrobat

Hi All,
I am about to embark on a project for Batch Processing using Javascript, I am an extreme novice and do not know whether I am going down the right path.
Does anyone know if the Typewriter tool can used via Javascript on Batch level, and what Syntax would be required and whether it can locate a specifc part of the document? I will post the finished code (that I have not started to this thread) if anyone can let me know whether I'm wasting my time on this or not?
Thanks in advance for any pointers
Joe

Thank you so much for the advice,
I obviously was going in the wrong direction, I'll look into annotations
Thanks so much Try67

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