* 0.0.9 - AIP: better checks for false-positives IEEE: remove stdout garbage. The software can be downloaded and used free of charge, but adds a watermark on scans until a license is purchased. It supports optical character recognition (OCR) of text documents. Use it by either piping in pdf data, or specifying a path to a pdf in the first argv slot. VueScan is a computer program for image scanning, especially of photographs, including negatives. * 0.0.11 - pdfparanoia command-line interface.

Pdfparanoia -verbose input.pdf -o output.pdf With open('output.pdf', 'wb') as file_handler: For recent versions of Python, use pdfminer3k instead.

You will also need to manually install 'pdfminer' if you do not use pip to install pdfparanoia.įor python versions prior to Python 3, use 'pdfminer' from the Python Package Index (). Pdfparanoia is written for python2.7+ or python 3.

You can also test your WiFi enabled scanner with the Mac OS X version of VueScan. Ip addresses, timestamps and other identifying information in watermarks on In addition to sending via Email and saving to the Photos App, VueScan Mobile allows you to save scanned images to your favorite iOS apps that can open PDF or JPEG files such as iBooks, Dropbox, GoodReader, Evernote, etc. Publishers include private information like institution names, personal names, Pdfparanoia is a PDF watermark removal library for academic papers.

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