Remove all embedded images from your PDF document.
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Choose a fileFusionPDF removes all embedded images from a PDF using pdf-lib. Each Image XObject in the PDF's resource dictionary is replaced with a blank empty Form XObject of the same dimensions, so the page layout is preserved but images appear as transparent blank spaces. Text, fonts, links, annotations, and document structure are completely unaffected. No upload required, no account needed.
Drop your PDF into the upload area or click to select it, then click "Remove Images." The tool scans every page's XObject resource dictionary, identifies all Image XObjects by their /Subtype /Image entry, and replaces each one with an empty Form XObject that preserves the original width and height values. The modified PDF downloads immediately.
If the tool finds no images in the PDF, it reports this and offers to download the original. This happens with text-only documents or PDFs that use only vector graphics. For those files, there is nothing to remove.
The tool targets Image XObjects embedded in the PDF's XObject resource dictionary. These are the standard way photos, screenshots, diagrams saved as rasters, and other bitmap images are stored in a PDF. Both JPEG (DCTDecode) and other raster image formats stored as Image XObjects are replaced.
What is not removed: vector graphics (paths, shapes, lines drawn with PDF path operators), text rendered as glyphs, gradient fills, colored backgrounds added at the page level, and Form XObjects that wrap non-image content. These are structurally different from Image XObjects and are left entirely intact.
File size reduction is the most common reason. Images account for the vast majority of PDF file size in most real-world documents. A 10 MB product catalogue stripped of its photos might shrink to under 100 KB as a text-only version. This makes the file far faster to email, easier to store, and quicker to load in any viewer.
Preparing a text-only version of a document for accessibility purposes is another common use. Screen reader users often work with text-stripped PDFs, and some accessibility auditing workflows require a version of each document with no image content to verify that all information is conveyed through text alone. Other uses include stripping proprietary photos before sharing a document template, removing embedded charts or images that contain confidential data before distributing a report, and reducing visual clutter when the images were decorative rather than informational.
These three tools reduce the visual impact of images in different ways, and the right choice depends on what you actually want to do with the document afterward.
Remove Images (this tool) permanently deletes all raster image content from the PDF. Images are gone, replaced by blank spaces. Use this when you want a text-only version and don't need the images at all.
Grayscale conversion keeps all images but removes their color information, converting everything to shades of gray. Use the Grayscale PDF tool when you need to prepare a document for black-and-white printing or when color accuracy is not needed but the images still provide useful visual context.
Compression keeps all images and their colors but reduces their file size by re-encoding at lower quality. Use the Compress PDF tool when you need to reduce file size while keeping all visual content intact, for example to meet an email attachment size limit without losing any document content.