I would like to delete /remove all highlighting from my pdf ebook
Another problem is how to delete a highlighted word X if it occurs 100 times
Any solution?
MacBook Pro 13″
I have found that alternatives to Preview can do the trick.
There are several alternatives, with more functionality and pleasant layout.
I have tested Highlights, PdfGear, FoxItPdf Reader, Pdf Reader Pro, Updf.
Highlights seems to me very pleasant for reading.
Open the PDF in Preview. Press cmd+i to open the Inspector. On the Inspector's toolbar, click the right-most tool that looks like a pen drawing a line. That will show entries for all annotations. Using the cmd-key, click each entry that shows the partial Highlig… and when all are selected, just press delete (e.g. backspace) and then click on the PDF document itself.
All Highlights will be removed, providing there are no PDF restrictions in play.
There is no means in Apple's Preview to remove a Highlight annotation based on the number of its occurrences.
I also have an AppleScript that prompts you for the PDF and then removes all occurrences of Highlight annotations.
Apple's Preview and Adobe Acrobat Reader use different approaches to implementing PDF highlights. Currently, only PDFs that have been highlighted in Adobe Acrobat Reader grant access to that text string for comparison purposes and subsequent selective removal.
The text string, when a highlight is applied to a word in Apple's Preview is not returned for comparison and accordingly, one cannot selectively remove highlight annotations applied in Preview. The ability to remove all occurrences of highlights in an entire PDF document remains programmatically with Preview.
I tried that trick with Inspector. Does not work. WOuld you kindly send me your Script.
Could you make a Script that finds all highlights of the same word and then removes them at once ?
Do you use the Shortcuts app?
How to remove all highlights from pdf
