Have you considered reading the xref table before beginning your manipulations, using it to calculate the sizes of the objects, reading the objects as binary records (set $/ to a reference to a number or use read) using the xref information, and then simply calculating and writing a new xref table? That should be faster still than asking the regex engine to scan the entire contents of a PDF.
therefor my regex forces this byte sequence to be found at the beginning of a line
A binary stream can also contain an end-of-line sequence, especially if we consider maliciously crafted input.
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