Occasionally, I receive a question like this one: Is it possible to make a document searchable but remove the hyperlinks? Even if I remove the hyperlinks from the document, [Adobe] Reader users can still click the links which open URLs in their web browser. Legal Professionals sometimes want to remove hyperlinks from documents in discovery production. Since a link to a website is valuable, why make it easy to check out the destination? Or, perhaps your source documents have a link to a destination which is out of date. It might be easier to remove these links rather than correct them. In this article, I’ll discuss how to remove links and a 'feature/gotcha' that limits what you are able to do. For you diehards, I also provide a workaround.
How do links get into PDFs anyway? Hyperlinks are authored three different ways: • Inserted by an authoring application such as Microsoft Word and preserved when using the PDF Maker integration provided by Acrobat • Created in Acrobat • Automatically created by the viewer (Reader or Acrobat) Some Links are Automatically Generated Consider the following four examples I created in a Microsoft Word file and then converted to PDF: Acrobat and Reader treat these links in different ways: Type Link will be... Can link be deleted? D Embedded Link Active (this link is present in the PDF) Yes Automatic Links...
A and B above are dynamically generated when the page is opened in Reader or Acrobat. They don’t actually ever exist as link overlays in the PDF. For this reason, it isn’t possible to delete them. So, there’s your gotcha! You could re-scan the document, but if you OCR it Acrobat and Reader will still find the links.
Melody 1971 Movie Torrent. Maybe that doesn’t seem fair, but this feature is extremely useful. Most folks outside the legal field don’t want to have to retype links into their web browser. It’s a feature, not a bug. Removing Links You can remove embedded links (inserted by authoring applications or by Acrobat). Here’s how to do so in Acrobat X or XI: Choose Tools >Document Processing >Remove All Links A Sneaky Workaround Embedded links always take precedence over dynamically generated links.
