Need to remove notes from multiple pdfs

We have thousands of pdfs that have notes and stamps
and text boxes on them. We need a way to programmatically remove the notes but leave the
stamps and text boxes without opening each file individually? Can anyone help witih this?
The optimizer does a good job but it also removes the stamps and text boxes we need to keep
. Perhaps the SDK???? Anyone know???

You can use JavaScript to loop through the annotations in a document, and remove (destroy) any particular type. The Acrobat
JavaScript documentation has some sample code you can modify. See the "destroy" method of the Annot object: http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.81.html
Edit: The code shown should be changed so that you loop in reverse order, since you're potentially removing annotations.
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