NO: Saturday night and I am curious......

[Phil (OmnisList)]

Hi Stephen,

Not sure why you might want to do what you are suggesting...

But, seems you could maybe just read dates and figures from the pdfs, 
then generate a new pdf print with garbage other details?

Its possible to read the text out of a PDF, parse out what you want, 
capture an image of the original pdf, edit it manually to remove, well 
everything, then print out a new pdf with dates, amounts but garbage 
accounts and holders!

An alternative thought...

regards
Phil Potter
Based in Chester in the UK.

On 11/03/2023 08:22, Stephen Miller wrote:
> Hi All
>
> My challenge for this Saturday night is the following...
>
> I have a whole lot, 100's, of pdfs that all use Times New Roman.
>
> It appears that the pdf standard does store a ASCII value for the letter
> "A" or a string using the same font and size like "ABC" it stores a pointer
> to the specific Winansi Font Table position for this character.
>
> Now I know why Adobe only lets you replace one at a time, no replace all,
> as it depends on the font.
>
> Now in my case they are all Times New Roman so that hopefully, as I know
> the size and style of the Font from looking in edit mode in Acrobat Pro, I
> should be able to use a Hex Editor such as Neo to do a global find and
> replace???
>
> For those that have some idea what I am talking about I think the wikipedia
> page on "Windows-1252", and the table of that page is useful correct?
>
> Please note all the documents are the same, bank statements, but there are
> hundreds of them and I want to obfuscate the identity data of the account
> holder and all accounts this person has transactions with?
>
> Possible or should I take up drinking again and buy a televison?
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Stephen Miller
>
> 0455461581
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