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November 23, 2020
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remove all images from pdf with Adobe Acrobat DC 2020

  • November 23, 2020
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Hi, is there any way to remove all images from pdf file with Adobe Acrobat DC 2020?  I have a document with more than 600 images.

Using javascript or another way to allow massive remove them

thank you!

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Amal.
Community Manager
Community Manager
November 26, 2020

Hi Sapi

 

++ Adding to the discussion.

 

I have tested a way of removing the images from the PDF. However, it has some flaws and consiquences like: the document losses its formatting (Fonts, spacing etc.) and you need to re-format the PDF using 'Edit' tool.

 

If you don't mind loosing the formatting of the document, you can try the following option:

 

  • Open the PDF document.
  • Go to File  menu of Acrobat> Save as ‘.txt’ file (This format does not preserve the image data)
  • Go to File  menu of Acrobat > Create > PDF from file > select the .txt file created.

Note: The new PDF created using the above steps needs to be reformatted for fonts and spacing

 

Regards

Amal

Amal.
Community Manager
Community Manager
November 24, 2020

Hi Sapi

 

Hope you are doing well and sorry for the trouble. As described you want to remove the images from the document of more than 600 pages.

 

When you apply one or more routine sets of commands to your files, you can save time and keystrokes by using an action—a defined series of commands with specific settings and in a specific order that you apply in a single step. You can apply an action to a single document, to several documents, or to an entire collection of documents. You can even scan documents and combine several documents into a single PDF before running an action.

Acrobat provides some predefined actions. You can also create your own actions. You can access and manage the actions by clicking Tools > Action Wizard.

 

For more information please look at the help page https://helpx.adobe.com/in/acrobat/using/action-wizard-acrobat-pro.html#create_a_custom_action

 

Hope this information will help

 

Regards

Amal

try67
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 24, 2020

That doesn't answer the question of how to do it using an Action...  A script can't do it and there's no built-in command that does it. The only way I can think of is by using the Preflight tool, but even that's tricky. Maybe if you used the "Put all image objects on layers" command and then removed those layers.