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Constantin
Constantin

Reputation: 669

Automatically remove all PDF content outside a crop area

For a deck of lecture slides, I have extracted several vector illustrations from a PDF-file. I did this by highlighting the relevant area in Preview.app, copying, and opening a new file from the clipboard.

The figures look just fine, even though I noticed that the files are a little large. When I open them in Illustrator, I can see what's described in the screenshot – that all of the page content is still there, it's just hidden because it lies outside the crop area.

These two windows show the same file

Now I could simply remove everything except the relevant figures in Illustrator, but I would much rather automate the process, since I have a large number of figures.

How can I automate this process such that everything outside the crop area is discarded and everything inside it is preserved as a vector image?

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Upvotes: 6

Views: 5812

Answers (3)

John
John

Reputation: 359

In Acrobat Pro, go to Preflight and select the setting below. Preflight setting

Then click edit to the right Settings for removal

You should be able to create Adobe droplets with this preflight setting for automation

Upvotes: 2

PatrickF
PatrickF

Reputation: 642

You can use redact utility to remove the content.

  • Just go to https://doxiview.cib.de/showcase/index.html?locale=default
  • Choose redact tool
  • upload your PDF
  • Choose on the right Select Area and redact fill color as white
  • Mark all content, which you want to remove
  • click on apply
  • download PDF
  • Afterwards you can crop the PDF and you won't have the content being still there.

Upvotes: 1

joelgeraci
joelgeraci

Reputation: 4927

There's no need to rasterize. Just crop the pages then use Acrobat DC to "Sanitize" the document. That will completely remove any non-visible parts of the file.

Upvotes: 0

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