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      need one that would search a story and, e.g., replace the text "Pencil.tif"
      with a graphic file named Pencil.tif from a given folder.




I've found in my archive a script written by Peter Kahrel (I modified it a little). It finds text between two @ characters – e.g. @Pencil.tif@ – and replaces it with image that has the same name and is in the root folder of C drive.

// reset the Find/Change dialog
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
// formulate a grep search string
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '@.+?@';
// find all occurrence, last one first
f = app.activeDocument.findGrep (true);
for (i = 0; i < f.length; i++)
   {
   // construct file name
   name = f[i].contents.replace (/@/g, '');
   // place the pdf
   f[i].insertionPoints[0].place (File ('/c/' + name));
   }
// delete all @??@ codes
app.activeDocument.changeGrep()