Step 2 - Open The "Find And Delete Pages With Matching Text" Dialog Select "Plug-Ins > Pages > Delete Pages with Matching Text…" to open the "Find and Delete Pages with Matching Text" dialog. Step 1 - Open A PDF File Start the Adobe® Acrobat® application and open a PDF document that need to be processed using "File > Open…" menu. You can download trial versions of both the Adobe® Acrobat® and the AutoBookmark™ plug-in. Prerequisites You need a copy of the Adobe® Acrobat® along with the AutoBookmark™ plug-in installed on your computer in order to use this tutorial. To do that we are going to use regular expression " of \d+". In the example 2, the goal is to delete every 3rd page of the invoice. Each invoice contains "Page: N of M" text pattern ( of 3, of 3 and etc.). (that is John Doe`s Client ID) in order to make sure that all pages with invoices of John Doe are found and deleted. We are going to search for both text strings "John Doe" and "CLIENT ID: 00340957" In the example 1, the goal is to delete pages that contain invoices for John Doe only. Input Document Description The sample input PDF document that is used in this tutorial contains multiple invoices.Įach invoice contains a client name or a client ID (or both) on each page. Both text patterns (using regular expressions syntax) and plain text strings can be used The software searches a PDF document for pages matching user-specified search list andĭeletes them from the document.
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Deleting PDF Pages By Text Search Introduction This tutorial shows how to delete pages by text search within a PDF document by using the AutoBookmark™ plug-in for