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In Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can set a custom background color (in this case: white) within the as part of the accessibility options.

The following instructions are for version 9. Other version should be similar.

  1. Press Ctrl + K or go to Edit -> Preferences.

  2. Under Categories, select Accessibility.

  3. Check Replace Document Colors and Custom Color.

  4. Set Page Background to white.

  5. Click OK.

Note: This will only work for some PDFs. Others will not retain the changes when printing.

answered Jun 25 '12 at 1:36

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  • @Bruce: did this solution really work for your file(s)?

    Jun 25 '12 at 11:46

  • @pipitas I tested with one of the files I need, and it worked. I didn't test all of them though. A few of them might be using black boxes instead of backgrounds (like you mentioned) and these probably won't work.

    Jun 25 '12 at 16:55

  • @pipitas Actually, I apologize for the confusion, but this method does NOT work. It hids the background when viewing the PDF, but when printing it the background is still there.

    Jun 25 '12 at 23:40

  • @BruceConnor: I checked with other documents, and I was wrong to assume that it would work for all text-based PDFs. It works for some, however. I don't know why.

    Jun 26 '12 at 0:48

  • That's what I suspected. That's why I asked...

    Jun 26 '12 at 11:50

I had this same problem except I was printing an 89-page pdf document of anatomical pictures. The problem? These pictures were sitting in a black background.

So my solution was:

  1. Convert PDF to DOCX (for word) with online converter.

  2. Open DOCX file on Word.

  3. Picture-by-Picture select the pictures, Click "Picture Tools"in the upper toolbar, then select Format.
  4. An option to "Recolor" appears on the left most side under neath the brightness and contrast buttons.
  5. Click your picture, then this button then the recolor button then select transparent and click the black background.

Hey presto, you have now saved as much black ink as would have been required for the picture without decreasing much if any of the picture quality.

Hope it helps!

Excellll

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answered Dec 7 '15 at 18:53

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  • What do you use to convert PDF to DOCX? Do you lose properties when converting?

    Mar 31 '18 at 17:04

  • i found your solution helpful, however you can use 'macro' in MS Word to to brighten background or apply contrast. this will be done automatically which will save tons of time.

    Jul 2 '19 at 0:54

For PDFs with background images (and maybe colors as well, depending on the setup), you can hide them while viewing the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader (free) like so:

  1. Open a PDF file in Adobe Reader and click "View | Show/Hide | Navigation | Layers" to reveal the Layers panel.

  2. Click the "Eye" icon for the item named "background" or something similar. This action hides the background.

  3. Print!

Credit goes to: https://smallbusiness.chron.com/print-pdf-background-57017.html

answered Dec 14 '20 at 22:00

Had similar issue recently, I tried Ocrmypdf to remove the gray background color, it worked for me.

Command I tried:

              ocrmypdf --use-threads \          --remove-background \          -v2 \          --force-ocr \          --optimize 3 \          --output-type pdf \          in.pdf out.pdf

answered Nov 14 at 1:58

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