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How to delete annotations in PDF file using PDFBox

I would like to remove all the existing annotations in the PDF file. I could not find any direct method or API in PDFBox Annotaions API. Please provide any pointers to resolve the issue.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Solution

  • Assuming that you have a PDPage object, just do this:

    pdPage.setAnnotations(null);

    Here's the full code for the 1.8.* versions of PDFBox:

    PDDocument document = PDDocument.loadNonSeq(new File(pdfFilename), null);
List<PDPage> pdPages = document.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages();
for (PDPage pdPage : pdPages)
{ 
    pdPage.setAnnotations(null);
}
document.save(new File(...));
document.close();