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Fast Tip Friday – Search and Highlight Across Multiple PDFs

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 want to take this one step further and extract the pages with hits highlighted, check out the Fast Tip Friday – Search and Highlight and Extract Pages tutorial.

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