How to delete a certain element present on all pages of a pdf? (lemmy.world)

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So one of my pdfs has a page number and a link at the bottom of every page. It's around 500 pages so I dont want to edit it manually. Is there any way I can delete those things all at once from all pages of the pdf?

Maybe ghost script or python script can do this?

I also notice there isn't a PDF community in Lemmy, maybe somebody should create one.

Thanks a lot in advance.

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[-] j5906@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

Found this on stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68903835/how-to-draw-a-shape-inside-a-pdf-with-python

import fitz

Open the pdf

doc = fitz.open('./test.pdf') for page in doc: # For every page, draw a rectangle on coordinates (1,1)(100,100) page.draw_rect([1,1,100,100], color = (0, 1, 0), width = 2)