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Rakesh
Asked: 2012-02-22 03:14:53 +0800 CST

Open Source Command Line Tools to Remove Hyperlinks in PDFs?

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Are there any Open Source Tools to Remove PDF links in Ubuntu. I use PDFtk and i am not able to find any internal links in it. Due to the Internal links my python script that uses PyPdf to merge the PDF files into one file fails.

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3 Answers

  1. A simple step to remove all the hyper links from a PDF is by printing, that is by choosing print to file option. but this process doesn't remove the highlight of the hyper link. hope this helps

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  2. For PDF-files generated with latex and hyperref the following works:

    sed '/Link/d' < file.pdf > file-without-links.pdf

    This command removes all lines containing the string Link from the file, which (in my case) were responsible for defining the hyperlinks.

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  3. When I extract the pages from a PDF with pdftk and assemble them again afterwards the links are gone. Example:

    mkdir temp
cd temp
pdftk ../FileWithLinks.pdf burst
pdftk *.pdf cat output ../FileWithLinksRemoved.pdf
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