How to remove tracking metadata from my PDF
How to remove tracking metadata from my PDF
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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Could look into using exiftool, qpdf or pdftk, if you are comfortable with the terminal ✨
qpdf is very powerful. If OP is comfortable with the terminal, I'd recommend qpdf.
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.
There's dangerzone by freedom of press
Wow… The amount of information already being shared here is outstanding! Keep on rowing/patching mates
Perhaps printing to pdf may work
I would try reprinting the PDFs and comparing the hashes afterwards. That should remove any metadata in the headers as new headers are created.
That wouldn't work for something like Pathfinder PDFs from the Paizo website. They add a text watermark with the name and email associated with your account on their site to each page of the document. It's not metadata, it's actual data