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8.4 Removing text or objects inside or outside a selected area
About removing objects: example of usage
You can select a given area in your PDF document and remove text or objects, i.e. line art, images
or shadings, inside or outside that area. For example, suppose you have a PDF document in which
the header of each page contains a page number on a shaded line-art background. You wish to
remove the line art with shading, but keep the page numbers.
Figure 77: Removing line art with shading inside and overlapping the selected area but keeping the text
To remove objects inside or outside a selected area
1. In your PDF document, draw a rectangular area on the page using the Select Rectangular Area
tool .
2. Click the Enfocus Processing - Global Change button .
3. Select the Global Change Remove Graphics from the Remove category, and double-click it .
4. Click the Grab button and select Grab Area From Selection
5. Select the option to remove objects inside or outside the area box.
6. To include overlapping text segments or object segments, select Overlapping the area.
7. Select the objects (Text, Image, Line Art, Shading) which you want to remove.
8. Click Save to go back to the Enfocus Processing - Global Change panel
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