This article explains how to remove annotations from PDF using Python. It has the IDE settings, a list of steps for writing the application, and a sample code demonstrating PDF annotation remover using Python. You may customize the code to delete annotations from a particular page or delete the selected annotations.
Steps to Delete Annotations from PDF using Python
- Set the environment to use Aspose.PDF for Python via .NET to remove annotations
- Load the sample PDF with annotations into the Document class object
- Access the target page and get a reference to the annotations collection
- Call the delete() method to delete all the annotations from the selected page
- Save the output PDF file after removing the annotations
The above steps describe how to delete annotation in PDF using Python. Each page in the PDF file contains a collection of annotations that you use to delete all or selected annotations. Load the source PDF file, access the collection of pages, select the target page, get access to the annotations collection, and call the delete() method to remove all the annotations.
Code to Remove All Annotations from PDF using Python
This sample code can be used to remove PDF annotations using Python. You may remove annotations from a selected page based on page index, size, header/footer, and contents. You can also filter annotations using the annotation properties such as annotations flags, name, modified date, creation date, border, and most importantly annotation type.
This article has taught us to remove annotations from a PDF file. If you want to learn how to add an annotation such as highlighting text, refer to the article on How to highlight in PDF using Python.