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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Test Screen Name

Legend

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

Participant

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

On Acrobat's menu bar "Edit => Preferences => General => uncheck Create Links form URL".

Note this is user preference so you only remove the dynamic link for PDFs opened on the modified system not all users. Printing the PDF will not remove the URL. Also if the PDF used buttons with JavaScript, there will be no link annotation to be removed so these will remain unless one removes the hidden JavaScripts.

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