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When you download a paper from JSTOR or ScienceDirect, it is quite easy for them to add various watermarks to the PDF, and they already do (mildly). It might ma
by lambast 14y ago
When you download a paper from JSTOR or ScienceDirect, it is quite easy for them to add various watermarks to the PDF, and they already do (mildly). It might make it harder to scale this concept if the provider can track down who initially downloaded the paper (and presumably shared it).
- Create 14y agorequest several incarnations and junk the diff
- jtheory 14y agoThat's fine if you're technical enough to even know what that means; I'm worried about the people working outside the tech realm who could be unaware even of the personal risk when they try to help out.
- kanzure 14y ago> When you download a paper from JSTOR or ScienceDirect, it > is quite easy for them to add various watermarks to the > PDF, and they already do (mildly). You can strip the watermarks with a tool called pdfparanoia. https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia disclaimer: I wrote pdfparanoia because watermarks.