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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afaiu, PDF links are annotations, so this might be interesting: stackoverflow.com/questions/49598797/…– myrddCommented Dec 31, 2024 at 22:14
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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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Helps, but bookmarks can get lost by doing that. A solution for that issue is using the program jpdfbookmarks.– Til HundCommented May 17, 2014 at 21:20
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.
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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