command line tool for pdf editing
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I have a PDF that has my name as an obnoxious watermark through out a rather long PDF file. I tried replacing the text in libreoffice draw with blanks, but while my name does appear as text, the find and replace function seems to tank my computer taking significant Ram and CPU time to do. Is there a command line way to remove strings from pdfs? hmm.. can sed do that?
command-line libreoffice pdf sed
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I have a PDF that has my name as an obnoxious watermark through out a rather long PDF file. I tried replacing the text in libreoffice draw with blanks, but while my name does appear as text, the find and replace function seems to tank my computer taking significant Ram and CPU time to do. Is there a command line way to remove strings from pdfs? hmm.. can sed do that?
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I have a PDF that has my name as an obnoxious watermark through out a rather long PDF file. I tried replacing the text in libreoffice draw with blanks, but while my name does appear as text, the find and replace function seems to tank my computer taking significant Ram and CPU time to do. Is there a command line way to remove strings from pdfs? hmm.. can sed do that?
command-line libreoffice pdf sed
asked 3 hours ago
j0h
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I have a PDF that has my name as an obnoxious watermark through out a rather long PDF file. I tried replacing the text in libreoffice draw with blanks, but while my name does appear as text, the find and replace function seems to tank my computer taking significant Ram and CPU time to do. Is there a command line way to remove strings from pdfs? hmm.. can sed do that?
command-line libreoffice pdf sed
command-line libreoffice pdf sed
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j0h
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j0h
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Did you test the answers on How to Edit PDFs??
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Did you test the answers on How to Edit PDFs??
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As it’s just text, you can remove it simply with sed or in fact any text editor – let’s say it says “watermark”:
sed 's/watermark//g' in.pdf >out.pdf
If that doesn’t work, you may need to uncompress the file first, e.g. with pdftk (How can I install pdftk in Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic?):
pdftk in.pdf output out.pdf uncompress
If sed’s output is not readable with your preferred PDF reader, try repairing it with pdftk:
pdftk out.pdf output out_pdftk.pdf
Source: How to remove watermark from pdf using pdftk • Super User
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As it’s just text, you can remove it simply with sed or in fact any text editor – let’s say it says “watermark”:
sed 's/watermark//g' in.pdf >out.pdf
If that doesn’t work, you may need to uncompress the file first, e.g. with pdftk (How can I install pdftk in Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic?):
pdftk in.pdf output out.pdf uncompress
If sed’s output is not readable with your preferred PDF reader, try repairing it with pdftk:
pdftk out.pdf output out_pdftk.pdf
Source: How to remove watermark from pdf using pdftk • Super User
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As it’s just text, you can remove it simply with sed or in fact any text editor – let’s say it says “watermark”:
sed 's/watermark//g' in.pdf >out.pdf
If that doesn’t work, you may need to uncompress the file first, e.g. with pdftk (How can I install pdftk in Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic?):
pdftk in.pdf output out.pdf uncompress
If sed’s output is not readable with your preferred PDF reader, try repairing it with pdftk:
pdftk out.pdf output out_pdftk.pdf
Source: How to remove watermark from pdf using pdftk • Super User
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As it’s just text, you can remove it simply with sed or in fact any text editor – let’s say it says “watermark”:
sed 's/watermark//g' in.pdf >out.pdf
If that doesn’t work, you may need to uncompress the file first, e.g. with pdftk (How can I install pdftk in Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic?):
pdftk in.pdf output out.pdf uncompress
If sed’s output is not readable with your preferred PDF reader, try repairing it with pdftk:
pdftk out.pdf output out_pdftk.pdf
Source: How to remove watermark from pdf using pdftk • Super User
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As it’s just text, you can remove it simply with sed or in fact any text editor – let’s say it says “watermark”:
sed 's/watermark//g' in.pdf >out.pdf
If that doesn’t work, you may need to uncompress the file first, e.g. with pdftk (How can I install pdftk in Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic?):
pdftk in.pdf output out.pdf uncompress
If sed’s output is not readable with your preferred PDF reader, try repairing it with pdftk:
pdftk out.pdf output out_pdftk.pdf
Source: How to remove watermark from pdf using pdftk • Super User
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