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How to delete a certain element present on all pages of a pdf? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

pdftk can split it into pages, and then recombine the pages. not sure how to automatically remove an element from each page unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Stirling-PDF can do 10x as many kinds of tasks as pdftk can. I used to use pdftk until I discovered Stirling-PDF and have never looked back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

yes just found Stirling-PDF. It is indeed amazing