From liberationtech@lewman.us Fri Jul 6 02:35:49 2018 From: liberationtech@lewman.us To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Removing watermarks from pdfs (pdfparanoia) Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:35:49 +0000 Message-ID: <172289281144.3881296.6733210471408391134.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0991282225638636144==" --===============0991282225638636144== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 14:20:22 -0600 Bryan Bishop wrote: > How about removing those pesky watermarks from pdfs? Sometimes they > completely obfuscate the contents of a paper we're trying to read, or > sometimes they have more sinister purposes. I get PDFs watermarked to me by their placement of sections in relation to one another, their word choice in opening sentences of paragraphs, and figure/image locations within the PDF. The idea being that the content is the watermark, not some silly overlay watermark which is fairly easily stripped out in most free operating systems. --=20 Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanfor= d.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech ----- End forwarded message ----- --=20 Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============0991282225638636144==--