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Trying to search for words and add annotations to each word

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2010-07-28 10:30:17
StevenD
Registered: Oct 6 2006
Posts: 368

I'm trying to search for the word Chapter on a Contents page and add the word to the note contents. The script below works fine. I would like to get the next word after "Chapter" so I end up with "Chapter 1", "Chapter 2" and so forth. There has got to be a way to get the next word and add it to the "Chapter". I just can't get it to work. Any suggestions or tips would be most helpful.

/*
var numWords = this.getPageNumWords(2);
for (var i = 0; i < numWords; i++)
{
var myWord = this.getPageNthWord(2, i);
if (myWord == "Chapter")
{
this.addAnnot({
page: 2,
type: "Underline",
quads: this.getPageNthWordQuads(2, i),
contents: myWord
});
}
}
*/

I thought I could get the word next to the word "Chapter" by using the following line of code but it doesn't seem to work and I'm not sure what I am doing wrong.

//this.getPageNthWord(2, (i + 1);

StevenD

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro Extended 9.3.1, Windows
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2010-07-28 12:18:13
#1
try67
Expert
Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
The line of code you posted should work. What does it return?

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2010-07-28 12:27:16
#2
StevenD
Registered: Oct 6 2006
Posts: 368
Nothing. I did notice that I believe I'm missing a closing ")".

StevenD

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2010-07-28 12:39:45
#3
StevenD
Registered: Oct 6 2006
Posts: 368
After my original post I kept working at it and I came up with a working solution although I thought this could be done without haveing to add the extra lines of code.

var numWords = this.getPageNumWords(2);
for (var i = 0; i < numWords; i++)
{
var myWord = this.getPageNthWord(2, i, true);

//I added these two lines of code
var myNum = i + 1;
var myChapNum = this.getPageNthWord(2, myNum);

if (myWord == "Chapter")
{
this.addAnnot({
page: 2,
type: "Underline",
quads: this.getPageNthWordQuads(2, i),

//I modified this line by concatenating Chapter and the number.
contents: myWord + " " + myChapNum

});
}
}

Another interesting thing was when I tried to turn off the remove punctuation and white space by changing that parameter to false the script wouldn't work. That is why I added the '+ " " +' to give me a space between the Chapter and number ei. "Chapter 1" instead of "Chapter1" for the text of the annotation note.

StevenD

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