{"id":34770,"date":"2019-09-06T14:33:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T21:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ephesoft.com\/docs\/?p=34770"},"modified":"2020-09-03T14:34:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T21:34:29","slug":"kb00027534-blank-page-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ephesoft.com\/docs\/kb00027534-blank-page-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"KB00027534: How to Create a Script to Remove Blank Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article describes how to remove blank white pages from document files in all Ephesoft Transact versions. Blank pages can be removed from documents contained in batch instances when processing documents in the Ephesoft Transact workflow.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This capability is not enabled by default with Ephesoft Transact, but is available with a basic script that reads the <strong>HOCR.xml<\/strong> file associated with blank pages. 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