How to delete a certain element present on all pages of a pdf? - Lemmy.World
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So one of my pdfs has a page number and a link at the bottom of every page. It’s around 500 pages so I dont want to edit it manually. Is there any way I can delete those things all at once from all pages of the pdf? Maybe ghost script or python script can do this? I also notice there isn’t a PDF community in Lemmy, maybe somebody should create one. Thanks a lot in advance.

So one of my pdfs has a page number and a link at the bottom of every page. It’s around 500 pages so I dont want to edit it manually. Is there any way I can delete those things all at once from all pages of the pdf?

Maybe ghost script or python script can do this?

I also notice there isn’t a PDF community in Lemmy, maybe somebody should create one.

Thanks a lot in advance.

  • lol@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    I’ve done similar things with a regular PDF editor (Master PDF Editor for Linux in this case) by just selecting all the elements at once through a search and pressing delete.

    This should work with your link, but probably not the page number, since there’s nothing static you could search for.

      • Flagstaff@programming.devEnglish
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        2 days ago

        The freemium, offline-capable software Stirling-PDF is king of open-source PDF-editing. Nothing else comes even close, despite how counterintuitive its UI can be. Ironically enough, the creator said it was originally a ChatGPT experiment, but once it went viral, he ended up hiring others and they all regularly improve it as its staff.

        If you are on Windows, head over to @ahk@programming.dev and we’ll see what we can do about automating the removal per pg. via AutoHotkey.