hi, there are several types of pictures. 1. bitmap images that are stored as resources 2. inline bitmap images that are stored within page's content stream 3. images that consist of curves/vectors - these vectors are defined within page's content stream
your example code removes only images defined in #1 if you want to remove images #2 and #3 it is much harder. you need to parse content stream, remove them, and create new content stream. Best regards Juraj Lonc From: Zhnupy Gonzalez <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 08. 11. 2012 14:50 Subject: remove all images from pdf Hello everyone, While looking for a way to remove all images from pdf file, I found this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6831194/how-can-i-remove-all-images-drawings-from-a-pdf-file-and-leave-text-only-in-java which wasn't enough, so I ended replacing the page's resource object with a new (empty) one: for (Object pageObj : catalog.getAllPages()) { PDPage page = (PDPage) pageObj; page.setResources(new PDResources()); } which for my purposes is fine (there are some warnings when opening the file with acrobat reader but it doesn't interfere with my goal). BUT, there are still some images on the document and I don't know how to tear them out. I don't even know how to "navigate" to those images, my guess is I need to somehow traverse through page.getCOSDictionary() and delete appropiate entries but I haven't manage to do that and also not sure if that works. any help? regards
