Find and Replace Text in PDF Java

find-replace-text-pdf-page.java

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-pdf/Aspose.Pdf-for-Java
// Open document
Document pdfDocument = new Document("source.pdf");

// Create TextAbsorber object to find all instances of the input search phrase
TextFragmentAbsorber textFragmentAbsorber = new TextFragmentAbsorber("sample");

// Accept the absorber for first page of document
pdfDocument.getPages().get_Item(0).accept(textFragmentAbsorber);

// Get the extracted text fragments into collection
TextFragmentCollection textFragmentCollection = textFragmentAbsorber.getTextFragments();

// Loop through the fragments
for (TextFragment textFragment : (Iterable<TextFragment>) textFragmentCollection) {
	// Update text and other properties
	textFragment.setText("New Pharase");
	textFragment.getTextState().setFont(FontRepository.findFont("Verdana"));
	textFragment.getTextState().setFontSize(22);
	textFragment.getTextState().setForegroundColor(Color.getBlue());
	textFragment.getTextState().setBackgroundColor(Color.getGray());
}
// Save the updated PDF file
pdfDocument.save("Updated_Text.pdf");

find-replace-text-pdf-regex.java

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-pdf/Aspose.Pdf-for-Java
// Open document
Document pdfDocument = new Document("input.pdf");

// Create TextAbsorber object to find all instances of the input search phrase
TextFragmentAbsorber textFragmentAbsorber = new TextFragmentAbsorber("\\d{4}-\\d{4}"); // like 1999-2000

// Set text search option to enable regular expression usage
TextSearchOptions textSearchOptions = new TextSearchOptions(true);
textFragmentAbsorber.setTextSearchOptions(textSearchOptions);

// Accept the absorber for all pages of document
pdfDocument.getPages().accept(textFragmentAbsorber);

// Get the extracted text fragments into collection
TextFragmentCollection textFragmentCollection = textFragmentAbsorber.getTextFragments();

// Loop through the fragments
for (TextFragment textFragment : (Iterable<TextFragment>) textFragmentCollection) {
	// Update text and other properties
	textFragment.setText("New Pharase");
	textFragment.getTextState().setFont(FontRepository.findFont("Verdana"));
	textFragment.getTextState().setFontSize(22);
	textFragment.getTextState().setForegroundColor(Color.getBlue());
	textFragment.getTextState().setBackgroundColor(Color.getGray());
}

// Save the updated PDF file
pdfDocument.save("Updated_Text.pdf");

find-replace-text-pdf.java

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-pdf/Aspose.Pdf-for-Java
// Open document
Document pdfDocument = new Document("source.pdf");

// Create TextAbsorber object to find all instances of the input search phrase
TextFragmentAbsorber textFragmentAbsorber = new TextFragmentAbsorber("sample");

// Accept the absorber for all pages of document
pdfDocument.getPages().accept(textFragmentAbsorber);

// Get the extracted text fragments into collection
TextFragmentCollection textFragmentCollection = textFragmentAbsorber.getTextFragments();

// Loop through the fragments
for (TextFragment textFragment : (Iterable<TextFragment>) textFragmentCollection) {
	// Update text and other properties
	textFragment.setText("New Pharase");
	textFragment.getTextState().setFont(FontRepository.findFont("Verdana"));
	textFragment.getTextState().setFontSize(22);
	textFragment.getTextState().setForegroundColor(Color.getBlue());
	textFragment.getTextState().setBackgroundColor(Color.getGray());
}
// Save the updated PDF file
pdfDocument.save("Updated_Text.pdf");