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How to remove tracking metadata from my PDF (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by SpookyBanana@reddthat.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I have some good PDF ebooks I'm willing to share, but I suspect the seller embeds some tracking data in them to link them to my account, as every time I download them from the official website they have a different hash while being visually identical. The same when checking against the copies a friend bought from the same seller. Since I dont wanna get banned, can you recommend a way to remove that stuff?

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[–] thumbman@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay hear me out... physically print the documents then, using a high resolution scanner, make a digital copy and finally use a raster to vector convertor.

I know this is probably dumb, but I just wanted to throw this out there.

[–] 0x4E4F@vlemmy.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why not just print it to PDF. It doesn't lose any data, plus it doesn't take ages to scan the books.