title: Editing PDF text using Java and Itext
body: <p>Is there a way I can edit a PDF document text? like find and replace specific text ?</p>
  
  <p>I have a PDF document which contains placeholders for text that I need to identify and be replaced or just delete that text.</p>
  
  <p>I am able to edit the pdf with a specific coordinates (x, y) but unable to identify and replace. All the libraries that I saw created PDF from scratch and small editing functionality.
  Is there anyway I can edit above explained using itext?
  please advise...thank you!</p>
  
  <h2>**Example : A pdf document contains following paragaph. In this paragraph, I need to identify DATE: and FROM: as a text and replace it with something else.</h2>
  
  <p><strong>The oldest classical Greek and Latin writing had little or no spaces between words or other ones, and could be written in boustrophedon (alternating directions). Over time, text direction (left to right) became standardized, and word dividers and terminal punctuation became common. 
  **DATE:</strong>
  <strong>FROM:</strong>
  <strong>The first way to divide sentences into groups was the original paragraphos, similar to an underscore at the beginning of the new group</strong>
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