Dear a7mad, removing text from a PDF is not an easy task as - text which might visually appear as a single item might consistent of individual parts within the PDF itself e.g. each character or groups of characters are place individually in different COSStrings - text might be drawn using graphics commands - text can appear within different parts of the PDF (e.g. the text might be content of a form field AND the annotation representing the form field visually) - you need to look up the encoding information to get form the characters in the PDF "string" to the ones you are looking for ….
If you can post a specific PDF to a public location and describe in detail which string should have been replaced which hasn't I will be able to tell you why that might have happened. Maruan > Am 23.03.2015 um 15:03 schrieb a7med shre3y <a7med.shr...@gmail.com>: > > Hi all, > > Currently I am facing a strange problem removing text from the some PDFs. > My program is able to find the text and "remove it" by calling the > COSString.reset() method. > The problem is, when I open the output PDF file, I still see the text but > not selectable (I mean when I try to highlight it with the mouse to copy > it, it's not selectable!). When print the content (tokens) of the output > file, I DO NOT find the text at all!! > > I am currently stuck in the PDF specifications 1.5 and really running out > of time. > > I'd so much appreciate any help or any idea on what's going on. > > Notes: > 1. I use use PDFBox 1.7.1 > 2. This problem does not occur with all PDFs, only some PDFs cause this > problem. > > Thank you very much. > a7mad --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org
