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hello,
i'm new to the group, and i feel like this has been covered, but haven't really found a definitive answer even after searching google and sites like this.
currently developing a solution for a client where a scanner produces a PDF (tiff image embedded in some pretty standard PDF file 'tags')...what i was hoping to do was create a simple VB function in a back-end app that will pick up that PDF and insert some 'comments' in the beginning of the file (not visible when the PDF opens in the reader. basically, the goal is to make the files searchable (from a Windows directory structure) by placing some values inside the PDF...again, may not be possible, but haven't found anything definitive.
i also need to do this w/o installing Acrobat on the client/server machine...licensing and cost issues w/ doing that...i've worked w/ the Acrobat SDK some in the past, and this isn't an option in this case.
from everything i've read, sounds like this isn't possible due to the structure of the PDF file...once edited and resaved, the file becomes un-usable...even if i just open a PDF in notepad and resave it, it gets corrupted.
any ideas to accomplish this w/o having Acrobat installed and using the object model to modify the PDF ?
Thanks, Chris
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