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I have some sewing patterns that I would like to share (and hopefully swap) but all of the PDFs have a

"This was purchased by John Doe john.doe@email.com #ordernumber - if you are not John Doe, please dob in the person you got this from to company@example.com so we can sick our lawyers on them"

sorta footer on every single page.

Obviously for privacy reasons (and because I don't actually want lawyers sicked onto me), I need to remove this footer.

These are often complex PDFs with more than a hundred pages and multiple layers.

I managed to successfully remove the editing password (not user/viewing password, just can't edit without password) with qpdf --decrypt. But removing that footer has left me at a dead end. I have even tried manually removing every single instance of those footers using Master PDF Editor but saving the file flattened it and you are no longer able to show/hide layers which is essential for correct printing. (Please don't ask me how many different PDF editors I have tried because it has been so so SO many I have lost count).

Not that I really want to have to manually edit this out on what could amount to over a thousand pages but searching for a command to remove a certain phrase has come up empty. Even Master PDF Editor doesn't seem to have a bulk remove or search and replace function (just search).

I use Linux btw.

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[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You can just buy a prepaid gift card from a convenience store and pay cash for it.

Then do online purchase with it and download the contents through tor.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have yet to get an online service to accept the gift card I purchased for thus

[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Subscription based services typically don't.