Search text in a PDF and add hyperlinks on top of the text found

// Load the document
PDFDocument pdfDoc = new PDFDocument ("C:\\myfolder\\input.pdf", null);
 
// this is my search label that comes before the text to be redacted
String searchLabel = "www.qoppa.com";
 
// Loop through all pages in the document
for (int pageix = 0; pageix < pdfDoc.getPageCount(); ++pageix)
{
   // Search for the label text
   Vector<TextPosition> labelInstances = pdfDoc.getPage(pageix).findText(searchLabel, false, false);
 
  // Add links on top of the text instances found
  if (labelInstances != null && labelInstances.size() > 0)
  {
    for (TextPosition tp : labelInstances)
    {
    	// Create the Link annotation
    	Rectangle2D linkBounds = tp.getEnclosingShape().getBounds2D();
    	Link link = pdfDoc.getAnnotationFactory().createLink();
    	link.setRectangle(linkBounds);
        link.setBorderWidth(1f);
        link.setColor(Color.blue);
 
        // Add URL actions to the link
    	URLAction action = new URLAction("https://www.qoppa.com");
    	Vector<URLAction> actionList = new Vector<URLAction>();
    	actionList.add(action);
    	link.setActions(actionList);
 
    	// Add the link to the page
    	pdfDoc.getPage(pageix).addAnnotation(link);
    }
  }
}
// save doc with links
pdfDoc.saveDocument ("C:\\myfolder\\output_links.pdf");

// Load the document PDFDocument pdfDoc = new PDFDocument ("C:\\myfolder\\input.pdf", null); // this is my search label that comes before the text to be redacted String searchLabel = "www.qoppa.com"; // Loop through all pages in the document for (int pageix = 0; pageix < pdfDoc.getPageCount(); ++pageix) { // Search for the label text Vector<TextPosition> labelInstances = pdfDoc.getPage(pageix).findText(searchLabel, false, false); // Add links on top of the text instances found if (labelInstances != null && labelInstances.size() > 0) { for (TextPosition tp : labelInstances) { // Create the Link annotation Rectangle2D linkBounds = tp.getEnclosingShape().getBounds2D(); Link link = pdfDoc.getAnnotationFactory().createLink(); link.setRectangle(linkBounds); link.setBorderWidth(1f); link.setColor(Color.blue); // Add URL actions to the link URLAction action = new URLAction("https://www.qoppa.com"); Vector<URLAction> actionList = new Vector<URLAction>(); actionList.add(action); link.setActions(actionList); // Add the link to the page pdfDoc.getPage(pageix).addAnnotation(link); } } } // save doc with links pdfDoc.saveDocument ("C:\\myfolder\\output_links.pdf");