Add Replacement Annotation

How to add Replacement Annotation in Java

Replacement annotation replaces original text with other provided text fragment. Please check the picture below to know how replacement annotation may look like.

There is an ability to specify the next fields for ReplacementAnnotation type:

FontColor - color of annotation text;
Opacity - allows to set annotation opacity;
Points - annotation positions set by array of points.
TextToReplace - text that will be replaced

Follow these steps to add Replacement annotation to document:

Instantiate Annotator object with input document path or stream;
Instantiate ReplacementAnnotation object with desired properties (position, page number, etc);
Call add method and pass ReplacementAnnotation object;
Call save method with resultant document path or stream;

The following code demonstrates how to add ReplacementAnnotation to the document:

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GitHub Examples

You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:

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