Removing Forms

Nathanael D. Noblet nathanael at gnat.ca
Thu Mar 20 22:35:34 UTC 2025


Hello Albert,

  Thanks for the response. I didn't see anything obvious but wanted to
check.

Sincerely,
-- 
Nathanael

On Thu, 2025-03-20 at 23:31 +0100, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El dijous, 20 de març del 2025, a les 19:31:45 (Hora estàndard
> d’Europa 
> central), Nathanael D. Noblet va escriure:
> > Hello,
> > 
> >   I presume that since poppler is mostly about viewing PDFs there's
> > no
> > "built in" way to take a pdf and remove any forms and then save it?
> 
> Nothing immediately trivial comes to mind, no
> 
> > Particularly in the cpp API. I've read through the pdftocairo -pdf
> > code
> > path. It does what I want, but I was hoping for a way to do that
> > via
> > the cpp api. Is that possible? I've seen some methods like
> > removeDocInfo(), 
> 
> docInfo is author, creation date, etc.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert
> 
> > but not sure if its possible to just remove the form
> > itself...
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> 
> 
> 
> 



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