Remove all links from a PDF

remove-links-pdf.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Remove all links from a PDF."""

import argparse

import fitz


def main():
    args = parse_args()
    doc = fitz.open(args.pdf_in)
    for page in doc.pages():
        for link in page.get_links():
            link_target = link.get("file") or link.get("uri")
            if link_target is not None:
                page.delete_link(link)
    doc.save(args.pdf_out)


def parse_args():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Remove all links from a PDF")
    parser.add_argument("pdf_in", help="The input PDF file")
    parser.add_argument("pdf_out", help="The link-free output PDF file")
    return parser.parse_args()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()