Automatically search and highlight in a PDF

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I teach high school band. Every Monday I receive a PDF file with all students in the school who are academically ineligible. The list has student names, IDs and what classes they are ineligible in. Is there some way I could build a script to automatically go through the PDF and highlight the students in my band?

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Essentially I would include in the script a list of student IDs for my band students, the script would highlight those numbers if they appear in the eligibility list.

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Iā€™m pretty sure you could do this with Skim. See https://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/wiki/AppleScript/

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Thanks for the help. I was able to get it working with Skim.

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