Re: [DIYbio] Removing watermarks from pdfs (pdfparanoia)

Bryan linked to the discussion history, which is on Science Liberation
Front's mailing list. The "sinister purpose" is republication of
scientific literature accessed through academic portals and the like,
with the removal of identifying metadata so the donating scientists
don't get in trouble.

On 06/02/13 18:23, leaking pen wrote:
> sinister purposes?
>
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail.com
> <mailto:kanzure@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.
>
> 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
> <http://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 <tel:1%20512%20203%200507>
>
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