see if this ghostscript script can help http://www.planetpdf.com/forumarchive/151779.asp I haven't ran it, but it claims it will remove blank pages in a pdf.
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Michael Chaney <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm assuming you're using Perl here. There are a couple of reasonable > looking options on cpan for reading and manipulating PDFs. I've done it > myself before. > > My recommendation is to write a program to read these in and then dump the > contents out as text, or at least the basic structure. It's tedious as some > formatters place every single letter on the page. The point is to see what > is on blank pages that makes them look "not blank" to a computer. Probably > the easy way is to just look at a sample PDF and make note of some page > numbers of blank pages and then only dump those. If you can then easily > identify that then you can drop those pages and write the PDF back out (or > create a new PDF which includes only non-blank pages - even better as it can > be a filter). > > Michael > > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 2:14 AM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I've got a large PDF. The program that created it inserted a large number >> of blank pages (600 pages, best guess 1/4 are blank). >> >> Is there any way to print the pages with text and not print all the blank >> pages? >> >> Google turned folks wanting to do it, and few answers. (Or folks >> complaining about printer driver/PPD issues adding blank pages. Or with a >> scanned PDF, which this isn't.) >> >> I tried Adobe Acrobat X preflight "remove empty pages" from the PDF (I >> found where and how with great difficulty). If I did everything correctly, >> and appears I did, there must be something invisible on the pages, so >> Acrobat doesn't consider them blank and leaves them in... >> >> There was something loosely defined on making images of the pages and >> evaluating the contrast or something. But I'm not sure how to do that. >> >> Any ideas? My Google-foo has run out on this one. >> >> Paul >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > -- > Michael Darrin Chaney, Sr. > [email protected] > http://www.michaelchaney.com/ > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
