From kanzure@gmail.com Fri Jul 6 02:40:29 2018 From: Bryan Bishop To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: [DIYbio] Removing watermarks from pdfs (pdfparanoia) Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:40:29 +0000 Message-ID: <172289281130.3881296.16405460954325551642.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7567881100352819824==" --===============7567881100352819824== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. Working proof of concept: https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdfparanoia Discussion history: https://groups.google.com/group/science-liberation-front/t/c68964cf55d8f6fa People who could theoretically benefit from this: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=3D%22Authorized+licensed+use+limited+to%22 http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=3D"Redistribution+subject+to+SEG+license+= or+copyright" http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=3D"Redistribution+subject+to+AIP" http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=3D"Downloaded+from+http%3A%2F%2Fpubs.acs.= org+on" http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=3D"Downloaded+*+*+2001..2013+to+*" To get source code: git clone git://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia.git To install: sudo pip install pdfparanoia or: sudo easy_install pdfparanoia Right now there's IEEE and AIP support. I need more samples to work with. - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507 --=20 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups = DIYbio group. To post to this group, send email to diybio(a)googlegroups.com.= To unsubscribe from this group, send email to diybio+unsubscribe(a)googlegro= ups.com. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/fo= rum/diybio?hl=3Den Learn more at www.diybio.org ---=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DI= Ybio" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an ema= il to diybio+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to diybio(a)googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/diybio?hl=3Den. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. ----- 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 --===============7567881100352819824==--