I have a PDF that needs some significant editing. I can't go back to the source. I could accomplish a lot with a search / replace tool. I've been searching through the help files and information online and I can't figure out if there is a search/replace tool in this product. I have found the search / redact tool, but no search / replace. Does anyone know if Acro Pro 9 has this feature? If not, is there a free plugin that could do this...? and in which version of Acrobat did they introduce search/replace?
No there is no search/replace in any release. PDF is really utterly unsuited to this kind of work. Acrobat is nothing like Word and never will be... if there is any way to get the original, please do that. Otherwise you may need to remake an editable document (e.g. exporting DOC or copy/paste text).
The Find toolbar searches the currently open PDF. You can selectively replace the search term with alternative text. You replace text one instance at a time. You cannot make a global change throughout a PDF or across multiple PDFs.
Choose Edit > Find (Ctrl/Command+F).
Type the text you want to search for in the text box on the Find toolbar.
To replace text, click Replace With to expand the toolbar, then type the replacement text in the Replace With text box.
You can delete individual words or sentences in a PDF file in Acrobat 9 Pro by going to:
Tools > Advanced Editing > TouchUp Text Tool
Swipe across selected text then hit the delete button.
The only way to replace text is to delete (as above) and then type in new text. If you have the same text on multiple pages, you can only delete/replace individually - not all at once.
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