diff --git a/aio/tools/transforms/angular-api-package/index.js b/aio/tools/transforms/angular-api-package/index.js
index 523b42de88..b86b541a9e 100644
--- a/aio/tools/transforms/angular-api-package/index.js
+++ b/aio/tools/transforms/angular-api-package/index.js
@@ -23,14 +23,13 @@ module.exports = new Package('angular-api', [basePackage, typeScriptPackage])
   .processor(require('./processors/filterMemberDocs'))
   .processor(require('./processors/markBarredODocsAsPrivate'))
   .processor(require('./processors/filterPrivateDocs'))
-  .processor(require('./processors/filterIgnoredDocs'))
 
   // Where do we get the source files?
   .config(function(readTypeScriptModules, readFilesProcessor, collectExamples) {
 
     // API files are typescript
     readTypeScriptModules.basePath = API_SOURCE_PATH;
-    readTypeScriptModules.ignoreExportsMatching = [/^[_ɵ]/];
+    readTypeScriptModules.ignoreExportsMatching = [/^[_ɵ]|^VERSION$/];
     readTypeScriptModules.hidePrivateMembers = true;
     readTypeScriptModules.sourceFiles = [
       'animations/index.ts',
@@ -70,13 +69,6 @@ module.exports = new Package('angular-api', [basePackage, typeScriptPackage])
     collectExamples.exampleFolders.push('examples');
   })
 
-  // Ignore certain problematic files
-  .config(function(filterIgnoredDocs) {
-    filterIgnoredDocs.ignore = [
-      /\/VERSION$/  // Ignore the `VERSION` const, since it would be written to the same file as the `Version` class
-    ];
-  })
-
   // Configure jsdoc-style tag parsing
   .config(function(parseTagsProcessor, getInjectables) {
     // Load up all the tag definitions in the tag-defs folder
diff --git a/aio/tools/transforms/angular-api-package/processors/filterIgnoredDocs.js b/aio/tools/transforms/angular-api-package/processors/filterIgnoredDocs.js
deleted file mode 100644
index f1ec0fe177..0000000000
--- a/aio/tools/transforms/angular-api-package/processors/filterIgnoredDocs.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Filter out docs whose id matches a pattern in the `filterIgnoredDocs.ignore` list
- */
-module.exports = function filterIgnoredDocs() {
-  return {
-    ignore: [],
-    $runAfter: ['ids-computed'],
-    $runBefore: ['computing-paths'],
-    $process: function(docs) {
-      return docs.filter(doc => !this.ignore.some(regexp => regexp.test(doc.id)));
-    }
-  };
-};
diff --git a/aio/tools/transforms/angular-api-package/processors/filterIgnoredDocs.spec.js b/aio/tools/transforms/angular-api-package/processors/filterIgnoredDocs.spec.js
deleted file mode 100644
index c47c6b1966..0000000000
--- a/aio/tools/transforms/angular-api-package/processors/filterIgnoredDocs.spec.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-const testPackage = require('../../helpers/test-package');
-const processorFactory = require('./filterIgnoredDocs');
-const Dgeni = require('dgeni');
-
-describe('filterIgnoredDocs processor', () => {
-
-  it('should be available on the injector', () => {
-    const dgeni = new Dgeni([testPackage('angular-api-package')]);
-    const injector = dgeni.configureInjector();
-    const processor = injector.get('filterIgnoredDocs');
-    expect(processor.$process).toBeDefined();
-  });
-
-  it('should run before the correct processor', () => {
-    const processor = processorFactory();
-    expect(processor.$runBefore).toEqual(['computing-paths']);
-  });
-
-  it('should run after the correct processor', () => {
-    const processor = processorFactory();
-    expect(processor.$runAfter).toEqual(['ids-computed']);
-  });
-
-  it('should remove docs that match the ignore list', () => {
-    const processor = processorFactory();
-    processor.ignore = [/\/VERSION$/, /ignore-me/];
-    const docs = [
-      { id: 'public1'},
-      { id: 'ignore-me/something' },
-      { id: 'public2'},
-      { id: 'and-me/VERSION' }
-    ];
-    const filteredDocs = processor.$process(docs);
-    expect(filteredDocs).toEqual([
-      { id: 'public1'},
-      { id: 'public2'}
-    ]);
-  });
-});