This article assists in how to remove comments from PDF using Python. You will get details about setting the IDE, a step-wise procedure to be followed, and a runnable sample code to delete comments in PDF using Python. The information will also be shared to delete all or selected comments only based on some criteria set by the user.

Steps to Remove all Comments from PDF using Python

1. Set the environment to use Aspose.PDF for Python via .NET to remove comments
2. Load the source PDF file having a few comments in it using the Document class object
3. Parse through all the pages of the loaded document and access the collection of annotations
4. Check each annotation if it is a TEXT type or not
5. If it is a comment, call the delete() method to remove the comments
6. Save the resultant PDF file without the comments in it

These steps contain the complete procedure to delete comments from PDF using Python. The process is commenced by loading the source PDF followed by parsing all the pages in the document and then parsing the annotations collection on each page to search the TEXT type annotations. Once found, the delete() method is called to remove the comment from the PDF page.

Code to Create PDF using Python

This code clarifies the process of how to remove comments in PDF using Python. It shows that the Annotation class is an important class to achieve this requirement if you want to delete all the comments then use this code otherwise delete a particular comment by passing its index directly in the delete() method. Also if you want to delete a comment based on certain criteria then access the individual comments and check its different properties like the contents, title, subject, or state to delete it as per the requirements.

This article has guided us on how to remove all comments from PDF using Python. If you are interested in learning the process to add comments in a PDF file, refer to the article on how to add comments in PDF file using Python.