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=%22Authorized+licensed+use+limited+to%22 http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q="Redistribution+subject+to+SEG+license+or+copyright"<http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Redistribution+subject+to+SEG+license+or+copyright%22> http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q="Redistribution+subject+to+AIP"<http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Redistribution+subject+to+AIP%22> http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q="Downloaded+from+http%3A%2F%2Fpubs.acs.org+on"<http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Downloaded+from+http%3A%2F%2Fpubs.acs.org+on%22> http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q="Downloaded+*+*+2001..2013+to+*"<http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Downloaded+*+*+2001..2013+to+*%22> 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 -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups DIYbio group. To post to this group, send email to diybio@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to diybio+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/diybio?hl=en Learn more at www.diybio.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DIYbio" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to diybio+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to diybio@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/diybio?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> 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