On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 06:59:03PM -0500, liberationt...@lewman.us wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 14:20:22 -0600 > Bryan Bishop <kanz...@gmail.com> 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.
If you render to bitmap, and then to djvu (maybe with OCR) then this should strip these. -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
