How to change the author name for comments?

Does anyone have a script which will change the name of the author whenever any markup such as underlining, highlighting, etc, is applied?

25th October 2015
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You can change the name of the author manually through the properties box, but this is time consuming and difficult.

Posted on LinkedIn on Mar 19, 2015 by Paul Tredoux

I have created a small ChangeAuthor example that changes the author from "iText" to "Bruno Lowagie" using iText in Java.

It takes a PDF with annotations created by "iText" and turns it into a PDF with annotations created by "Bruno Lowagie".

The code is really simple: we loop over the annotations of a page and we change the T entry (if present and if equal to "iText"). We use PdfStamper to persist the changed PDF.

public void manipulatePdf(String src, String dest)
    throws IOException, DocumentException {
    PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(src);
    PdfDictionary pageDict = reader.getPageN(1);
    PdfArray annots = pageDict.getAsArray(PdfName.ANNOTS);
    if (annots != null) {
        PdfDictionary annot;
        for (int i = 0; i
Technical support Actions and annotations
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Annotations iText 5

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