Programmatic Way To Link Text Within A PDF

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2033969

  •  19-09-2019
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Question

I am looking for some way to code a function (I'm open to any language or library at this point) to take an already existing PDF file as input and return a modified PDF file that links certain words to different URLs. I know PHP and ColdFusion both have good tools for dealing with PDF's, but I haven't been able to find anything that works.

I've been doing this by going through Acrobat and linking the text by hand and was wondering if there was any way to automate the procedure.

Thanks!

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Solution

With ColdFusion you can extract the text with DDX (see Extracting text from a PDF document on the page), modify it using search/replace and generate new document.

OTHER TIPS

If I understand what you're trying to do, you should be able to use CFPDF (http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/Tags_p-q_02.html#2922772) to read the pdf file into a ColdFusion variable, replace whatever content you want in that variable, then save the content back to pdf.

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