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jordann on Sept 4, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand (2...

If you don't mind using java, you can use the open source Apache PDFBox library

https://pdfbox.apache.org/

It's relatively performant and it's a mature and supported codebase that can accomplish most pdf tasks.

Drakinte on Sept 5, 2023 [–]

Except text substitution

https://pdfbox.apache.org/2.0/migration.html#why-was-the-rep...

> ReplaceText example has been removed as it gave the incorrect illusion that text can be replaced easily

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