PDF Files

This fast tip demonstrates how to add another file as an attachment to a PDF file. This feature is available in Adobe Acrobat (even the Reader version) and Nuance Power PDF.  

This fast tip demonstrates how to use Nuance Power PDF Advanced to import a search term list, perform searches across multiple PDF files, and mark all of the terms for redaction. In a previous tutorial, I demonstrated how to Search and Highlight Across Multiple PDFs Using Adobe Acrobat Pro.  

This fast tip demonstrates how to split a PDF into multiple PDF files.  

This fast tip demonstrates how to perform a search and replace across multiple PDF files using Adobe Acrobat. This feature is available in both Acrobat XI and DC.

This fast tip demonstrates how to save web pages to a PDF file using Adobe Acrobat.

This fast tip demonstrates how to use an Adobe Acrobat action to perform searches across multiple PDF files, highlight all of the terms and extract the pages that have hits highlighted. The highlight colors available to use in the javascript are listed below: color.transparent color.black color.white color.dkGray color.gray color.ltGray color.red color.green color.blue color.cyan color.magenta color.yellow…

This fast tip demonstrates how to use an Adobe Acrobat action to import a search term list, perform searches across multiple PDF files, and highlight all of the terms. The highlight colors available to use in the javascript are listed below: color.transparent color.black color.white color.dkGray color.gray color.ltGray color.red color.green color.blue color.cyan color.magenta color.yellow If you…

This fast tip demonstrates how to use an Acrobat action sequence to remove the same password from PDF files in a folder, including subfolders. Download Sample Files

This fast tip demonstrates how to use a free tool called Count Anything to identify which PDF files are unsearchable. Sean O’Shea shared this tip in his article entitled Where Are My Unsearchable PDFs. Source: Sean O’Shea

This fast tip demonstrates how to search for custom text patterns using regular expressions and then redact the text. UPDATE: When searching for the XML file locations, you may need to unhide system files before running the search so that you can see this additional location under your user profile: C:\Users\[user profile name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Acrobat\[Acrobat version]\ Preferences\Redaction\ENU. You can…

This fast tip demonstrates how to search for email addresses, social security numbers, credit card numbers and dates within a PDF file and then redact any personal identifying information (PII). NOTE:  The Search & Remove Text function can handle a maximum of 500 PDFs at a time. In another Fast Tip Friday tutorial, I demonstrated…

In litigation matters, we deal with a lot of scenarios related to preparing documents for different stages of the discovery process. Many of these documents are in PDF format. There are scenarios where the lead attorney has a justified reason and may instruct a paralegal or litigation support to remove one or more pages from…

This fast tip demonstrates the basics for creating a PDF Portfolio.

This fast tip demonstrates how use dynamic stamps in Adobe Acrobat, including how to add two new dynamic stamp files to your computer. Download Sample Files

This fast tip demonstrates how to view different parts of one PDF file at the same time.

Once redactions have been added to a PDF file, if someone has a different preference for how the redactions should be formatted, this fast tip demonstrates how to bulk edit the redaction properties. Download Sample Files

This fast tip will demonstrate how to create a full-text index across folders and subfolders of PDF files. This enables the user to run searches across all of the PDF files at once, including bookmarks and comments if desired. In last week’s Fast Tip Friday, I demonstrated how to use an index to increase search…

Sometimes we receive very large PDF files with thousands of pages and of course we then need to run searches within the file. When the PDF file is very large, each search can take a while to run. This fast tip demonstrates how to use an embedded index to increase the search speed.