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PORemoving PDF invisible objects with iTextSharp
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copied!<p>Is possible to use iTextSharp to remove from a PDF document objects that are not visible (or at least not being displayed)?</p> <p>More details:</p> <p>1) My source is a PDF page containing images and text (maybe some vectorial drawings) and embedded fonts.</p> <p>2) There's an interface to design multiple 'crop boxes'.</p> <p>3) I must generate a new PDF that contains only what is inside the crop boxes. Anything else must be removed from resulting document (indeed I may accept content which is half inside and half outside, but this is not the ideal and it should not appear anyway).</p> <p>My solution so far:</p> <p>I have successfully developed a solution that creates new temporary documents, each one containing the content of each crop box (using writer.GetImportedPage and contentByte.AddTemplate to a page that is exactly the size of the crop box). Then I create the final document and repeat the process, using the AddTemplate method do position each "cropped page" in the final page.</p> <p>This solution has 2 big disadvantages:</p> <ul> <li>the size of the document is the [original size] * [number of crop boxes], since the entire page is there, stamped many times! (invisible, but it's there)</li> <li>the invisible text may still be accessed by selecting all (CTRL+A) within Reader and pasted.</li> </ul> <p>So, I think I need to iterate through PDF objects, detect if it is visible or not, and delete it. At the time of writing, I am trying to use pdfReader.GetPdfObject.</p> <p>Thanks for the help.</p>

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