Remove Tables from existing PDF

Remove Table from PDF document

Aspose.PDF for Python allows you to remove a table from a PDF. It opens an existing PDF, detects the first table on the first page with TableAbsorber, deletes that table using the remove_one_table. After save the updated PDF to a new file.

    import aspose.pdf as ap
    from os import path

    path_infile = path.join(self.data_dir, infile)
    path_outfile = path.join(self.data_dir, outfile)

    # Load existing PDF document
    document = ap.Document(path_infile)

    # Create TableAbsorber object to find tables
    absorber = ap.text.TableAbsorber()
    # Visit first page with absorber
    absorber.visit(document.pages[1])
    # Get first table on the page
    table = absorber.table_list[0]
    # Remove the table
    absorber.remove(table)
    # Save PDF
    document.save(path_outfile)

Remove all Tables from PDF document

With our library, you can remove all tables from a specific page in a PDF. The code opens an existing PDF, detects all tables on the second page with TableAbsorber, iterates through the detected tables, removes each one, and then saves the modified PDF to a new file. It is useful when you need to bulk-remove tables from a page while leaving the rest of the PDF content intact.

    import aspose.pdf as ap
    from os import path

    path_infile = path.join(self.data_dir, infile)
    path_outfile = path.join(self.data_dir, outfile)

    # Load existing PDF document
    document = ap.Document(path_infile)

    # Create TableAbsorber object to find tables
    absorber = ap.text.TableAbsorber()
    # Visit second page with absorber
    absorber.visit(document.pages[1])
    #  Loop through the copy of collection and removing tables
    tables = list(absorber.table_list)
    for table in tables:
        absorber.remove(table)

    # Save document
    document.save(path_outfile)