[liberationtech] [open-science] Removing watermarks from pdfs (pdfparanoia)

Bryan Bishop kanzure at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 13:15:48 PST 2013


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> PDF2SVG should be able to do this (http://bitbucket.org/petermr/pdf2svg).
> It should also remove the side annotations about which library the PDF was
> downloaded from. Send me one and I'll see.
>

Is there a svg2pdf? The problem with using pdfquery is that it can only
generate an xml format, and at first it looks like pdfxml, except Adobe
came up with a "standard" called pdfxml that looks completely different. So
getting things back into pdf seems to be difficult.

- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
1 512 203 0507
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