Remove Annotations

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

Have a look at some examples.

Usage

pdfcpu annotations remove [-p(ages) selectedPages] inFile [outFile] [objNr|annotId|annotType]...

Common Flags

name	description	values
v(erbose)	turn on logging
vv	verbose logging
q(uiet)	quiet mode
u(nit)	display unit	po(ints),in(ches),cm,mm
c(onf)	config dir	$path, disable
upw	user password
opw	owner password

Arguments

name	description	required
inFile	PDF input file	yes
outFile	PDF output file	no
objNr…	one or more objNrs	no
annotId…	one or more annotIds	no
annotType…	one or more annotTypes	no

Examples

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

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

Remove annotations for first 5 pages:

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

Remove all annotations:

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