Recently I had to remove a footer from a pdf document, as the document is over 100 pages and I need to do this on a monthly basis manual editing was not an option (oh and I am waaaay to lazy to do it manually)
After some research the following command line options worked like a charm:
Install qpdf and pdftk:
sudo apt-get install qpdf pdftk
Uncompress the pdf document:
qpdf --qdf --object-streams=disable source.pdf uncompressed.pdf
Then remove the text (footer) with the following sed:
sed -e "s/string to be removed/ /g" <uncompressed.pdf >removed.pdf
And lastly repair the pdf and compress it again.
pdftkremoved.pdf output target.pdf compress
remember to clean up and remove all the interim files.
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