People might customize the background of a PDF to make the document nice-looking, however, it can be distracting and unnecessary when you have to print out the PDF. This makes it essential to remove background from PDF. In this article, we’ll explore 5 fabulous tools for the task and offer a step-by-step tutorial to remove backgrounds easily using them. PS and Python lovers can enjoy great benefits as well.
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The main concern for most people is whether there is a feasible way to remove background from PDF online free. But to your disappointment, the online tools available on the market are virtually unable to do this job, even those rated in the top list of Google Chrome like pdfFiller and PDFzorro can’t either.
If you insist on finding a method to remove background from PDF online for free, Google’s Workspace--Google Docs can accomplish this purpose smoothly through its built-in conversion feature. Jump into the part 4 to get the detailed guide to remove background from PDF using Google Docs.
As a matter of fact, specialized PDF software is the best solution to remove background from PDF. The first thing that typically comes to people's minds is the software's high cost, which discourages them to download and try the software. Here Cisdem PDFMaster will remove your concerns, since it is aimed to benefit all individuals and small businesses at a cheap price.
Designed as a PDF editor, Cisdem PDFMaster has provided a one-stop solution that can deal with all kinds of PDF problems, including but not limited to editing PDF text contents, converting PDF files into other various formats, organizing PDF pages, enhancing the file security and creating PDF forms.
Utilizing its Editor feature, you can carry on the activity of removing background from both native and scanned PDF files. Moreover, it provides an efficient mode to batch remove backgrounds from numerous PDF documents in a snap. Without further ado, follow the step-by-step process to master the methods of removing PDF background.
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Adobe Acrobat is meant for working on PDF files, which provides abundant tools to edit, convert, protect, unlock and so on. Removing background from PDF is one of features concerning background. Besides this, Acrobat also enables users to add and update background.
Con: Do not support batch removing background from PDF files.
As stated in the beginning, Google Docs offers an online free way to remove background from PDF effortlessly. By converting the imported PDF file into the editable Word document, the original background color or image in the PDF will turn white. But when testing, we found that when uploading a large PDF, some images contained in the PDF did not load out smoothly and were displayed as exclamation points.
Con: Do not support batch removing background from PDF files.
In addition to 3 common methods introduced above, there are still 2 methods frequently asked by people to remove PDF background, they are Photoshop and Python.
Photoshop is a very popular product owned by Adobe Inc., dedicated in raster graphics editing. If you've got a PDF or a picture and need to remove any extra background from the page and just leave it with the desired design or logo, Photoshop can do a great job.
Python is a multi-purpose programming language that can help you to do all kinds of things, including removing background from a PDF image. To complete this job, we will have to download two Python modules, one is Pillow library (you can also download other modules like easygui, etc.) , another is rembg, which is used to remove the background of the selected image.
Install Pillow and rembg via Pip:
pip install Pillow
pip install rembg
Import these two modules:
from rembg import remove
from PIL import Image
Store the path of input and output file:
input_path = 'image01.png'
output_path = 'output01.png'
Remove the background from the inputted PDF image:
input = Image.open(input_path)
output = remove(input)
Save the output file in the given path:
output.save(output_path)
Through reading the whole article, we can see that Cisdem PDFMaster greatly stands out from the above-mentioned 5 PDF background removers, combining the benefits of affordable pricing, stunning features and ease of use. As its name suggests, PDFMaster aims to make users masters in the field of PDF. If you have any problems about PDF including removing background from PDF, download it and you’ll absolutely find a solution in it.
Bianca is a senior tech editor and strategist at Cisdem with Over 10 years of experience on PDF related solutions which covers all document editing, annotating, converting and managing etc.
