Btw it is non necessary to REPLACE the existing marker - because this can be
made invisible (for example in ultra small font and white color) but I only
have to PUT text or image at x,y corresponding to the marker.

I agree with Bruno that there should be a different approach, but our
"designers" still have dozen of xls and word modules and furthermore won't
never agree to use a design tool different from those they have and know.

Giuseppe. 

mdesignz wrote:
> 
> I had to do a similar thing for a large insurance company that had  
> thousands of PDFs created using Word, Quark, etc., and needed them  
> converted to fillable PDFs.
> I had to find all of the text and graphics (mostly long horizontal  
> lines) and drop fields on top of them, and then build a UI component  
> to allow them to associate the
> fields with stuff out of the database.   It works well, but it's not  
> something terribly easy to do.   I had to use iText and Apache's  
> PDFBox to pull it off.
> You'll need to download the PDF spec and become familiar with how a  
> PDF is constructed.  Probably a few weeks worth, but it's doable.
> 
> 
> On Jun 15, 2009, at 2:52 AM, beppecosta wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> is there a way to scan a pdf for given string markers (like "#1",  
>> #2", or
>> similar patterns) and get their x,y coordinates ?
>>
>> Step 2 would be to put some text or images or some other content  
>> right over
>> these markers.
>>
>> Or - are there some other suggestions - to automate this process ?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Giuseppe.
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