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As python 2.6 was already commented as a potential environment, there seemed little reason to not use Argparse rather than a sys.argv popping system; argparse offers automatically generated usage documentation and can offer useful errors when input is incorrect. The "with" context statement is also highly excellent and should be used wherever legacy support for old-timers using 2.6 is not needed.
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# pdfparanoia
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pdfparanoia is a PDF watermark removal library for academic papers. Some publishers include private information like institution names, personal names, ip addresses, timestamps and other identifying information in watermarks on each page.
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## Installing
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Simple.
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``` bash
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sudo pip install pdfparanoia
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```
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or,
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``` bash
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sudo python setup.py install
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```
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pdfparanoia is written for python2.7+ or python 3.
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You will also need to manually install "pdfminer" if you do not use pip to install pdfparanoia.
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## Usage
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``` python
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import pdfparanoia
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pdf = pdfparanoia.scrub(open("nmat91417.pdf", "rb"))
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with open("output.pdf", "wb") as file_handler:
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file_handler.write(pdf)
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```
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or from the shell,
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``` bash
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pdfparanoia --verbose input.pdf -o output.pdf
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```
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and,
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``` bash
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cat input.pdf | pdfparanoia > output.pdf
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```
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## Supported
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* AIP
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* IEEE
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* JSTOR
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* SPIE (sort of)
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## Changelog
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* 0.0.12 - SPIE
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* 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.
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* 0.0.10 - JSTOR
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* 0.0.9 - AIP: better checks for false-positives; IEEE: remove stdout garbage.
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* 0.0.8 - IEEE
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## License
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BSD.
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