Open Source Command Line Tools to Remove Hyperlinks in PDFs?

Question

Are there any Open Source Tools to Remove PDF links in Ubuntu. I use PDFtk and i am not able to find any internal links in it. Due to the Internal links my python script that uses PyPdf to merge the PDF files into one file fails.

Solution 1

A simple step to remove all the hyper links from a PDF is by printing, that is by choosing print to file option. but this process doesn't remove the highlight of the hyper link. hope this helps

Solution 2

For PDF-files generated with latex and hyperref the following works:

sed '/Link/d' < file.pdf > file-without-links.pdf

This command removes all lines containing the string Link from the file, which (in my case) were responsible for defining the hyperlinks.

Comments

[Til Hund]

Helps, but bookmarks can get lost by doing that. A solution for that issue is using the program jpdfbookmarks.

[CodeMedic]

That did not work for me. I was using pdftk 2.02

[Tom]

Neither for me pdftk 2.02