command line tool for pdf editing
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
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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
edited Dec 15 at 1:35
muru
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asked Dec 14 at 21:45
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
edited Dec 15 at 1:35
muru
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asked Dec 14 at 21:45
j0h
6,2401351111
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
command-line libreoffice pdf
edited Dec 15 at 1:35
muru
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asked Dec 14 at 21:45
j0h
6,2401351111
edited Dec 15 at 1:35
muru
1
asked Dec 14 at 21:45
j0h
6,2401351111
edited Dec 15 at 1:35
muru
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edited Dec 15 at 1:35
muru
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edited Dec 15 at 1:35
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asked Dec 14 at 21:45
j0h
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asked Dec 14 at 21:45
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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 your PDF file is compressed this doesn’t work, you need to uncompress it 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
Further reading: How to Edit PDFs?
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 your PDF file is compressed this doesn’t work, you need to uncompress it 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
Further reading: How to Edit PDFs?
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 your PDF file is compressed this doesn’t work, you need to uncompress it 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
Further reading: How to Edit PDFs?
Source: How to remove watermark from pdf using pdftk • Super User
answered Dec 14 at 21:58
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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 your PDF file is compressed this doesn’t work, you need to uncompress it 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
Further reading: How to Edit PDFs?
Source: How to remove watermark from pdf using pdftk • Super User
answered Dec 14 at 21:58
dessert
21.9k55997
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 your PDF file is compressed this doesn’t work, you need to uncompress it 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
Further reading: How to Edit PDFs?
Source: How to remove watermark from pdf using pdftk • Super User
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