pdfparanoia/README.md

pdfparanoia

pdfparanoia is a PDF watermark removal library for academic papers.

Installing

Simple.

sudo pip install pdfparanoia

or,

sudo python setup.py install

Usage

import pdfparanoia

pdf = pdfparanoia.scrub(open("nmat91417.pdf", "rb"))

file_handler = open("output.pdf", "wb")
file_handler.write(pdf)
file_handler.close()

or from the shell,

pdfparanoia input.pdf > output.pdf

and,

cat input.pdf | pdfparanoia > output.pdf

Supported

• 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.
• 0.0.8 - IEEE

License

BSD.