How do I remove all hyperlinks from a document?

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December 31, 2015
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By using the Tools>Document Processing>Removing All Links portion, it does not remove all of the hyperlinks. So far the solution is printing documents that are up to 1k pages or sorting through to print the hyperlinked pages to scan them and add them back to the document. There has to be a simplified way to remove all of the links. For example, if you had to print an Air Force Instruction, it's laced with hyperlinks. The process of removing all links only removes a portion and still leaves a ton of links left in the document that have to be searched and removed - or print the document to rescan it. Please help!

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Brainiac

I don't really see the connection between hyperlinks and printing - what are you specifically trying to solve? Is it that you want to remove http: links that you can see on the printed page?

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gkaiseril

Inspiring

There is a Preference option to convert URI in text format to links. So unless you remove the link text the link cannot be removed. You need to turn off the automatic link text to hyperlink or convert the text link to some other text.

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lainybear00Author

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Where is the preference option and will it work for a document that has been given to me instead of me being the original creator? I have Adobe XI so I'm not sure if that will really make a difference as to what may or may not work.

With regard to the connection between hyperlinks and printing, I'm trying to avoid printing the documents only to rescan them in the computer to get rid of the hyperlinks. This seems to be the only solution. I am not the creator of the document. I don't have the time to sit and edit 200 hyperlinks and peruse a document of 1000 pages to make sure all of the hyperlinks have been removed. Printing to scan wastes a ton of paper so I want to avoid it if I can.

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gkaiseril

Inspiring

I'm actually looking into your first suggestion. The only problem is since it is a work computer I can't really make too many modifications. So if it hasn't been downloaded, I won't be able to download it for use. Is there a way to contact Adobe via email to have them work on this issue so "Remove All Links" actually works without having to do additional work arounds?

So you are submitting a scanned image which has no text and cannot be searched. This also might be a problem for the courts or other attorneys and their staff when performing reviews of documents or discovery.

There is a tool for users with Acrobat Professional there is an action that can aid in preparing legal documents.

You might want to look at the AcroLaw Blogs about PDF/A. Rick Borstein provides an ongoing series of articles for lawyers and legal professionals.

I remember the story of one Federal judge that was upset about all the different documents format that she had to deal with, especially PDDFs, so she promptly sat down at her computer and typed a memo ink WordPerfect stating that all documents and communications would hence forth be sent to her in the MS Word format even though the courts were clearly moving to the PDF format.

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