Remove page redactions Leave feedback
On this page
GroupDocs.Redaction allows to easily to remove pages from PDF documents, slides from presentations and worksheets from spreadsheet documents.
With GroupDocs.Redaction API you can remove pages by specifying the page range by means of its relative position (the beginning or the end), zero-based index and the count of pages to remove. At this time the supported formats are: PDF, presentations (Microsoft PowerPoint, OpenOffice Presentations), word processing documents (Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Texts, Rich Text Files), spreadsheets (Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice Spreadsheets, etc.) and multi-frame images.
In the example below, we remove 2nd, 3rd and 4th pages from the document, if the document has enough pages:
from groupdocs.redaction import Redactor
from groupdocs.redaction.options import SaveOptions
from groupdocs.redaction.redactions import RemovePageRedaction, PageSeekOrigin
def remove_page_range():
# Load the document to be redacted
with Redactor("./multipage_sample.pdf") as redactor:
# Get document info
doc_info = redactor.get_document_info()
# Requires at least 4 pages
if doc_info.page_count > 3:
# Remove 3 pages starting from the 2nd one (zero-based index 1)
rem_opt = RemovePageRedaction(PageSeekOrigin.BEGIN, 1, 3)
# Apply the redaction
result = redactor.apply(rem_opt)
# Save the redacted document next to the source file
so = SaveOptions()
so.add_suffix = True
so.rasterize_to_pdf = False
so.redacted_file_suffix = "redacted"
redactor.save(so)
if __name__ == "__main__":
remove_page_range()
multipage_sample.pdf is the sample file used in this example. Click here to download it.
In some cases you might need to delete the last page or a number of pages, no matter how many pages are there.
The following example demonstrates how to remove the last page from a document:
from groupdocs.redaction import Redactor
from groupdocs.redaction.options import SaveOptions
from groupdocs.redaction.redactions import RemovePageRedaction, PageSeekOrigin
def remove_last_page():
# Remove 1 page counting from the end of the document
rem_opt = RemovePageRedaction(PageSeekOrigin.END, 0, 1)
# Load the document to be redacted
with Redactor("./multipage_sample.pdf") as redactor:
# Get document info
doc_info = redactor.get_document_info()
# Requires at least 2 pages so the document is not left empty
if doc_info.page_count > 1:
# Apply the redaction
result = redactor.apply(rem_opt)
# Save the redacted document next to the source file
so = SaveOptions()
so.add_suffix = True
so.rasterize_to_pdf = False
so.redacted_file_suffix = "redacted"
redactor.save(so)
if __name__ == "__main__":
remove_last_page()
multipage_sample.pdf is the sample file used in this example. Click here to download it.
Binary file (PDF, 190 KB)
In case of a multi-frame image you might need to delete a number of frames (treated as “pages”).
The following example demonstrates how to remove 3 frames from an animated GIF image:
from groupdocs.redaction import Redactor
from groupdocs.redaction.options import SaveOptions
from groupdocs.redaction.redactions import RemovePageRedaction, PageSeekOrigin
def remove_frame_from_image():
# Remove frames starting from the 3rd one (zero-based index 2)
rem_opt = RemovePageRedaction(PageSeekOrigin.BEGIN, 2, 5)
# Load the multi-frame image to be redacted
with Redactor("./sample.gif") as redactor:
# Get document info
doc_info = redactor.get_document_info()
# Requires at least 7 frames
if doc_info.page_count >= 7:
# Apply the redaction
result = redactor.apply(rem_opt)
# Save the redacted image next to the source file
so = SaveOptions()
so.add_suffix = True
so.rasterize_to_pdf = False
so.redacted_file_suffix = "redacted"
redactor.save(so)
if __name__ == "__main__":
remove_frame_from_image()
sample.gif is the sample file used in this example. Click here to download it.
Binary file (GIF, 704 KB)
Was this page helpful?
Any additional feedback you'd like to share with us?
Please tell us how we can improve this page.
Thank you for your feedback!
We value your opinion. Your feedback will help us improve our documentation.
