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?
ruination ( @ruination@discuss.tchncs.de ) English16•1 year agoThere’s dangerzone by freedom of press
thumbman ( @thumbman@lemm.ee ) English6•1 year agoOkay 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 ( @0x4E4F@vlemmy.net ) English6•1 year agoWhy not just print it to PDF. It doesn’t lose any data, plus it doesn’t take ages to scan the books.
daranto ( @daranto@feddit.de ) English6•1 year agoMaybe print the book via print to pdf and check again.
bbbhltz ( @bbbhltz@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year agoExiftool can remove metadata. There might even be websites that can handle this.
tubbadu ( @tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social ) English1•6 months agoPerhaps printing to pdf may work