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Removing images from PDF page on iOS

To remove all images from a document page.

1PTPDFDoc *doc = [[PTPDFDoc alloc] initWithFilepath: filename];
2PTPage *page = [doc GetPage:1];
3
4PTElementWriter *writer = [[PTElementWriter alloc] init];
5PTElementReader *reader = [[PTElementReader alloc] init];
6[reader Begin: page];
7[writer Begin: page placement: e_ptreplacement page_coord_sys: NO];
8
9PTElement *element;	
10while ((element = [reader Next])) 	// Read page contents
11{
12    switch ([element GetType])
13    {		
14        case e_ptimage: 
15        case e_ptinline_image: 
16            // remove all images by skipping them			
17            break;
18        default:
19            [writer WriteElement: element];
20    }
21}
22
23[writer End];
24[reader End];

PDF Editor (Programmatic)
Full code sample which strips all images from the page and changes text color to blue.

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