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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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[–] ruination@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 year ago
[–] 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.

[–] daranto@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Maybe print the book via print to pdf and check again.

[–] bbbhltz 3 points 1 year ago

Exiftool can remove metadata. There might even be websites that can handle this.

[–] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 10 months ago

Perhaps printing to pdf may work

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