Re: [PLUG] Descrambling PDFs from Docusign and such on Linux

2021-05-18 Thread TomasK
Download this: https://pastebin.com/dl/iCMmFU7x cat fileName | base64 -d > pdf.pdf Have fun copy pasting or searching for something you see. -T On Tue, 2021-05-18 at 20:26 -0700, Jason Barnett wrote: > I just downloaded some documents from Docusign and was able to fully > interact with them

Re: [PLUG] Descrambling PDFs from Docusign and such on Linux

2021-05-18 Thread Jason Barnett
I just downloaded some documents from Docusign and was able to fully interact with them using Okular. Search, copy, print all worked fine. It might be worth a try. What software were you trying to use? Maybe it is just that application that is choking on the file. I'm guessing that due to the

Re: [PLUG] Descrambling PDFs from Docusign and such on Linux

2021-05-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Tue, May 18, 2021, 22:19 Bill Barry wrote: > > I don't know the answer to your question, but you might be able to > skip the print part by uploading it to google drive and using the OCR > there. Not a great solution, but a possible solution. > . As I have said in the initial post - I could

Re: [PLUG] Descrambling PDFs from Docusign and such on Linux

2021-05-18 Thread Bill Barry
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 6:17 PM TomasK wrote: > > I have some PDFs (contracts) from docusign and/or similar cloud service > - I can read and print them, but I cannot copy or search their content. > > The zealots have encoded every paragraph/page with some hash and > included custom fonts to make

Re: [PLUG] Descrambling PDFs from Docusign and such on Linux

2021-05-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 18 May 2021 19:17:44 -0400 TomasK dijo: >I have some PDFs (contracts) from docusign and/or similar cloud service >- I can read and print them, but I cannot copy or search their content. > >The zealots have encoded every paragraph/page with some hash and >included custom fonts to make the

Re: [PLUG] Descrambling PDFs from Docusign and such on Linux

2021-05-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 18 May 2021, Tomas Kuchta wrote: Is your experience based on the scenario described above? Tomas, All the DocuSign documents for my PPP loans downloaded as regular PDF files. I don't recall the sources of the ones that were fixed by printing to a different .pdf. If I paid for a

Re: [PLUG] Descrambling PDFs from Docusign and such on Linux

2021-05-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Tue, May 18, 2021, 19:25 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 18 May 2021, TomasK wrote: > > > Does anyone know of some linuxy way to get rid of this BS and convert the > > PDFs to normal unicode? > > Tomas, > > Try printing the document(s) to file. For example, if you can view them in > xpdf do so

Re: [PLUG] Descrambling PDFs from Docusign and such on Linux

2021-05-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 18 May 2021, TomasK wrote: Does anyone know of some linuxy way to get rid of this BS and convert the PDFs to normal unicode? Tomas, Try printing the document(s) to file. For example, if you can view them in xpdf do so then click the print icon, select 'print to file', name it and see

[PLUG] Descrambling PDFs from Docusign and such on Linux

2021-05-18 Thread TomasK
I have some PDFs (contracts) from docusign and/or similar cloud service - I can read and print them, but I cannot copy or search their content. The zealots have encoded every paragraph/page with some hash and included custom fonts to make the document look and print normal. Does anyone know of