{"id":230411,"date":"2023-09-08T18:06:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T10:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=230411"},"modified":"2023-09-08T18:06:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T10:06:37","slug":"so-you-want-to-modify-the-text-of-a-pdf-by-hand-qpdf%c2%b7-github","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=230411","title":{"rendered":"So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand\u00a0 (qpdf)\u00b7 GitHub"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If you, like me, resent every dollar spent on commercial PDF tools, you might want to know how to change the text content of a PDF without having to pay for Adobe Acrobat or another PDF tool. I didn&#8217;t see an obvious open-source tool that lets you dig into PDF internals, but I did discover a few useful facts about how PDFs are structured that I think may prove useful to others (or myself) in the future. They are recorded here. They are surely not universally applicable &#8212;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/senderle\/8ad6aae251c4ddf9424f8a05dd0e8c18\">So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand \u00b7 GitHub<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you, like me, resent every dollar spent on commercial PDF tools, you might want to know how to change the text content of a PDF without having to pay for Adobe Acrobat or another PDF tool. I didn&#8217;t see an obvious open-source tool that lets you dig into PDF internals, but I did discover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230412,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230411\/revisions\/230412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}