diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d9f7334..6ca769d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -45,9 +45,11 @@ cat input.pdf | pdfparanoia > output.pdf
 * AIP
 * IEEE
 * JSTOR
+* SPIE (sort of)
 
 ## Changelog
 
+* 0.0.12 - SPIE
 * 0.0.11 - pdfparanoia command-line interface. Use it by either piping in pdf data, or specifying a path to a pdf in the first argv slot.
 * 0.0.10 - JSTOR
 * 0.0.9 - AIP: better checks for false-positives; IEEE: remove stdout garbage.
diff --git a/pdfparanoia/__init__.py b/pdfparanoia/__init__.py
index 19d0f0e..8194a4a 100644
--- a/pdfparanoia/__init__.py
+++ b/pdfparanoia/__init__.py
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ usage:
 """
 
 __title__ = "pdfparanoia"
-__version__ = "0.0.11"
-__build__ = 0x000011
+__version__ = "0.0.12"
+__build__ = 0x000012
 __author__ = "Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail.com>"
 __license__ = "BSD"
 __copyright__ = "Copyright 2013 Bryan Bishop"
diff --git a/pdfparanoia/eraser.py b/pdfparanoia/eraser.py
index 3e35c1f..8b32704 100644
--- a/pdfparanoia/eraser.py
+++ b/pdfparanoia/eraser.py
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ def manipulate_pdf(content, objid, callback, *args):
     last_line = None
     skip_mode = False
     for line in lines:
+        if line == "":
+            outlines.append("")
+            continue
         if not skip_mode:
             if last_line in ["endobj", "endobj ", None]:
                 if line[-3:] == "obj" or line[-4:] == "obj " or " obj <<" in line[0:50] or " obj<<" in line[0:50]:
diff --git a/pdfparanoia/plugins/__init__.py b/pdfparanoia/plugins/__init__.py
index 10179eb..93a425b 100644
--- a/pdfparanoia/plugins/__init__.py
+++ b/pdfparanoia/plugins/__init__.py
@@ -10,4 +10,5 @@ Scrubbing machines. Bubbles mandatory.
 from .aip import *
 from .ieee import *
 from .jstor import *
+from .spie import *
 
diff --git a/pdfparanoia/plugins/spie.py b/pdfparanoia/plugins/spie.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2f8ea2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pdfparanoia/plugins/spie.py
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+from copy import copy
+
+from ..parser import parse_content
+from ..eraser import remove_object_by_id
+from ..plugin import Plugin
+
+class SPIE(Plugin):
+    """
+    Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
+    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+    These watermarks are shown on each page, but are only defined in one place.
+    Also, there seems to be some interference from some of the other
+    pdfparanoia plugins causing the deletion of images in the document.
+    Side-effects need to be better accounted for.
+
+    """
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def scrub(content):
+        evil_ids = []
+
+        # parse the pdf into a pdfminer document
+        pdf = parse_content(content)
+
+        # get a list of all object ids
+        xrefs = pdf._parser.read_xref()
+        xref = xrefs[0]
+        objids = xref.get_objids()
+
+        # check each object in the pdf
+        for objid in objids:
+            # get an object by id
+            obj = pdf.getobj(objid)
+
+            if hasattr(obj, "attrs"):
+                # watermarks tend to be in FlateDecode elements
+                if obj.attrs.has_key("Filter") and str(obj.attrs["Filter"]) == "/FlateDecode":
+                    data = copy(obj.get_data())
+
+                    if "Downloaded From:" in data:
+                        evil_ids.append(objid)
+
+        for objid in evil_ids:
+            # for some reason SPIE pdfs are broken by this, images are randomly removed
+            #content = remove_object_by_id(content, objid)
+            continue
+
+        return content
+
diff --git a/tests/samples/spie/266c86e6f47e39415584450f5a3af4d0.pdf b/tests/samples/spie/266c86e6f47e39415584450f5a3af4d0.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..df31ca8
Binary files /dev/null and b/tests/samples/spie/266c86e6f47e39415584450f5a3af4d0.pdf differ
diff --git a/tests/test_spie.py b/tests/test_spie.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..06119a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_spie.py
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+import unittest
+import pdfparanoia
+
+class SPIETestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_spie(self):
+        file_handler = open("tests/samples/spie/266c86e6f47e39415584450f5a3af4d0.pdf", "rb")
+        content = file_handler.read()
+        self.assertIn("\n46 0 obj", content)
+
+        output = pdfparanoia.plugins.SPIE.scrub(content)
+        self.assertNotIn("\n55 0 obj", output)
+