Remove Annotations

This command removes annotation from a PDF document by object number.

Have a look at some examples.

Usage

pdfcpu annotations remove inFile [ outFile ] [ objNr | annotId | annotType]... [flags]

name	description	required
inFile	PDF input file, use `-` to read from stdin	yes
outFile	PDF output file, use `-` to write to stdout	no
objNr…	one or more objNrs	no
annotId…	one or more annotIds	no
annotType…	one or more annotTypes	no

Remove annotation with object number 575 as taken from the output from pdfcpu annotations list:

$ pdfcpu annotations remove test.pdf 575
writing test.pdf...
pages: all

Remove annotations for first 5 pages:

$ pdfcpu annotations remove test.pdf --pages 1-5
writing test.pdf...
pages: 1,2,3,4,5

Remove all annotations:

$ pdfcpu annotations remove test.pdf
writing test.pdf...
pages: all

Remove link annotations from a streamed PDF and upload the result:

$ aws s3 cp s3://acme-redaction/review.pdf - \
   | pdfcpu annotations remove - - Link \
   | aws s3 cp - s3://acme-redaction/review-no-links.pdf