Question How to concurrently, efficiently remove repeated instances of the same text in a PDF?

[scherz0]

This purchased PDF (that I didn't create) repeats the text, underlined in green, under each diagram. Undeniably, deleting each instance one by one is too inefficient! How can I delete this text productively, synchronously, at one fell swoop?

 

[Cogman]

How are you deleting that text now?

 

[reallyscrued]

I don't think you know what concurrently or synchronously means in modern programming contexts.

Nonetheless, this library for Java should help, but looks like the example is for overwriting a block of area with a solid color, and you'd have to know the exact coordinates on the page of the block you wish you color in - so that wouldn't be very programmatic if you're looking for a specific line of text to overwrite.

How to remove text from a PDF?

Is it possible to remove all text occurrences contained in a specified area (red color rectangle area) of ??a pdf document? I want to remove what i...

kb.itextpdf.com

Another option might be this (which could be more programmatic by searching for a particular phrase), but I haven't used it:

GroupDocs.Redaction for Java

A Java API for redaction of sensitive and classified information from the documents. You can redact in adobe pdf, redact in excel or in many of different file formats.

docs.groupdocs.com

There's a .NET flavor too

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

You can do it in iText in Java.

You'd probably have to look in the dictionary to find the specific info.

I'll be frank .... you are better off just doing it by hand. Try using Foxit maybe ..... and do a search/replace all