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Removing outlines from PDFs using JavaScript

To remove an outline by title in an existing document.

JavaScript (v6.0+)

1<html>
2  <script src="../lib/core/CoreControls.js"></script>
3  <script src="../lib/core/pdf/PDFNet.js"></script>
4  <script>
5    (async function() {
6      CoreControls.setWorkerPath('../lib/core');
7      const doc = await PDFNet.PDFDoc.createFromURL(filename);
8
9      // how to find and delete a outline by title text.
10      const firstOutline = await doc.getFirstBookmark();
11      const foo = await firstOutline.find('foo');
12      if (await foo.isValid()) {
13        foo.delete();
14      }
15    })()
16  </script>
17</html>

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Read, add, edit PDF outlines Full code sample which illustrates how to read and edit existing outline items and create new bookmarks using the high-level API

About removing an outline

The PDF Bookmarks class also allows you to quickly find Outlines based on the title text. For example, the above code snippet looks for a Outline called foo and then removes it from the outline tree.

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