Is there any way to delete only 1 specific widget in a page?

[ag-gaphp]

From the docs: https://pypdf.readthedocs.io/en/stable/modules/PdfWriter.html#pypdf.PdfWriter.remove_annotations

It seems that this method will delete ALL annotations of the provided type from a page. Is it possible to only delete 1 widget on a page using pypdf?

[stefan6419846]

As far as I am aware, there is no builtin method for this. As a workaround, you might want to have a look at _remove_annots_from_page and tweak this to your needs to only delete the exact annotation you are looking for.

[ag-gaphp]

I had the same idea, but still trying to wrap my head around all the pieces to tweak it to my needs. I was hoping there was already a way to do it since that method existed. I'll keep plugging away at it, thanks for the suggestion.

[pubpub-zz]

For me you should be able to loop through annotations and then delete it:
(should be something like this)

import pypdf
w = pypdf.PdfWriter(clone_from="input.pdf")
to_be_deleted = []
for i, a in enumerate(w.pages[0]["/Annots"]):
   a=a.get_object()
   if #### criteria on a ####:
       to_be_deleted.append(i)
for i in to_be_deleted[::-1]:
   del w.pages[0]["/Annots"][i]

w.write("output.pdf")

[ag-gaphp]

Much appreciated @pubpub-zz ! This was perfect. I had the right idea, but my execution attempts were way, way off. This is pretty simple and helped me understand a little more about how pypdf does things.