Remove copy protection from PDF documents
This is probably illegal, so use it at your own risk.
Some PDFs on the internet have a copy protection to make sure you cannot copy-paste any content from the PDF into a document you're writing. To circumvent this protection there are several tools available on the internet. I haven't tried any of them, because they're not free ;)
There is however a procedure that will enable you to circumvent the copy protection using free tools. The trick is to convert the PDF to a PS (PostScript) document first and then convert it back into a PDF.
So, download Ghostview en Ghostscript from: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/.
Next, open your PDF in Ghostview.
Next, from the "File" menu, select "Convert" (a dialog will pop up)
Press "Ok"
Fill in the name of the "converted" file.
Press "Save"
Tada, you can now copy content from your newly created PDF ;)
Some PDFs on the internet have a copy protection to make sure you cannot copy-paste any content from the PDF into a document you're writing. To circumvent this protection there are several tools available on the internet. I haven't tried any of them, because they're not free ;)
There is however a procedure that will enable you to circumvent the copy protection using free tools. The trick is to convert the PDF to a PS (PostScript) document first and then convert it back into a PDF.
So, download Ghostview en Ghostscript from: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/.
Next, open your PDF in Ghostview.
Next, from the "File" menu, select "Convert" (a dialog will pop up)
Press "Ok"
Fill in the name of the "converted" file.
Press "Save"
Tada, you can now copy content from your newly created PDF ;)
Comments
I'm loosing some images though but not to worry
cheers
nick
Thanks ALOT ;)
When the same government want sme to write a procedure based on their PDF for their government!!! Arghh to typing all that out again!
Ghost was excellent, I can now manipulate the text and do my job.
THanks.
chears
it will be great, please help us.
Thank you very much, now i can copy some code instead of writing it by hand.
Cheers
BigJoJo
Am I missing something , or does this work on small sub set ?
Thanks!
GRRRRR!
I couldn't figure out how to install Ghostwriter. Something is not coming through to me.
Is there any other site for help? The original site is too techy for me.
No place for an email to be notified of updates. I will check back for pity notes.
www.pdfunlockers..com
%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
This PostScript file was created from an encrypted PDF file.
Redistilling encrypted PDF is not permitted.
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
Any further suggestions?
Many thanks for this help!
Many thanks for this help!
Käännöstoimisto
Add following 3 jar files to the classpath: tika-app-1.0.jar; tika-core-1.0.jar; tika-parsers-1.0.jar
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, SAXException, TikaException {
File file = new File("C:/test.pdf");
FileInputStream fs = null;
fs = new FileInputStream(file);
Parser parser = new AutoDetectParser();
ContentHandler handler = new BodyContentHandler(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
ParseContext context = new ParseContext();
context.set(Parser.class, parser);
Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
metadata.set(Metadata.RESOURCE_NAME_KEY, file.getName());
parser.parse(fs, handler, metadata, new ParseContext());
String fileContent = handler.toString();
System.out.println(fileContent);
}
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