highlight words by regex in pdf files using python

[Aahz]

In article <af0830ae-1d24-4db9-b721-d6602fedd540 at 15g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>,
Peng Yu  <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I don't find a general pdf library in python that can do any
>operations on pdfs.
>
>I want to automatically highlight certain words (using regex) in a
>pdf. Could somebody let me know if there is a tool to do so in python?

Did you Google at all?  "python pdf" finds this as the first link, though
I have no clue whether it does what you want:

http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/
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