PDF challenge

xenou said:

Hi,
I've got some co-workers using Acrobat in a long-handed way. They are going through these steps which will be repeated about 14,000 times:

1. Search one long pdf document for a name
2. Print the page
3. Repeat (14,000 times)

The search takes about 10 seconds (alone) on average - so it adds up to a bit of time, with all clicking and waiting for search results.

I'm not at all familiar with coding to Adobe's object model. Does anyone know if it's possible to automate these steps, given a list of names (they come in about 100 at at time in Excel, to be matched and printed). Naturally, the use of names will not be a perfect match so we'd probably need to print all matching names and sort out the duplicates (common names will likely have two or more matches).

Any ideas welcome. Cheers,
xenou

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private static string PdDocGetText(AcroPDDoc pdDoc)
{
AcroPDPage page;
int pages = pdDoc.GetNumPages();
string pageText = "";

for (int i = 0; i < pages; i++)
{
page = (AcroPDPage)pdDoc.AcquirePage(i);
object jso, jsNumWords, jsWord;
List<string> words = new List<string>();

try
{
jso = pdDoc.GetJSObject();

if (jso != null)
{
object[] args = new object[] { i };
jsNumWords = jso.GetType().InvokeMember("getPageNumWords", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, jso, args, null);
int numWords = Int32.Parse(jsNumWords.ToString());

for (int j = 0; j <= numWords; j++)
{
object[] argsj = new object[] { i, j, false };
jsWord = jso.GetType().InvokeMember("getPageNthWord", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, jso, argsj, null);
words.Add((string)jsWord);
}
}

foreach (string word in words)
{
pageText += word;
}
}
catch
{
}
}

return pageText;
}
// end of the modified code from Eldrarak82

// the following I added using info form prev post in this thread
public static string getTextFromPDF(string filespec)
{
Acrobat.AcroAppClass gAppClass = new Acrobat.AcroAppClass();
Acrobat.AcroApp gApp = (Acrobat.AcroApp)gAppClass.GetInterface("AcroExch.App"); //Acrobat app
Acrobat.AcroAVDoc avDoc = (Acrobat.AcroAVDoc)gAppClass.GetInterface("Acrobat.AcroAVDoc"); //Visible pdf document with a UI Window
avDoc.Open(System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(filespec), System.IO.Path.GetFileName(filespec));

AcroPDDoc doc = (AcroPDDoc)avDoc.GetPDDoc();
string txt = PdDocGetText(doc);
doc.Close();
return txt;
}

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