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tonytx05/remove_pdf_annotation_author.py

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Script to remove author names from all annotations in a PDF.
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remove_pdf_annotation_author.py
from pypdf import PdfReader, PdfWriter
reader = PdfReader('input.pdf')
writer = PdfWriter()
for page in reader.pages:
if '/Annots' in page:
for annot in page['/Annots']:
obj = annot.get_object()
if '/T' in obj:
obj.pop('/T')
writer.append_pages_from_reader(reader)
with open('output.pdf', 'wb') as fp:
writer.write(fp)
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