move-unmarker 0.1.3

CLI utility to remove PII watermarks from pdfs downloaded from Move USP/ESALQ

Move Unmarker

Very small CLI utility to remove PII watermarks from pdfs downloaded from Move USP/ESALQ, using PyMuPDF.

Installation

1. Make sure Python 3.8 or higher and pip are installed
2. Run pip install move-unmarker

Usage

usage: unmarker [-h] [-o OUTPUT] [-g GARBAGE] input

Utility to remove PII watermarks from pdfs downloaded from Move USP/ESALQ.

positional arguments:
input                   input filename

options:
-h, --help              show this help message and exit
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        output filename (default: unmarked.pdf)
-g GARBAGE, --garbage GARBAGE
                        level of garbage collection (default: 1)  

pymupdf.Document.save method for more details on garbage collection.

TLDR

• unmarker watermarked.pdf
• unmarker -o unmarked.pdf watermarked.pdf
• unmarker --garbage 3 watermarked.pdf

Development

1. Check Python's version python -V

2. Install Python 3.8 or higher and pip, if they aren't already installed:

   • Windows winget install Python.Python.3.X (replace X with the desired minor version)
   • Ubuntu/Debian based distros apt install python3 python3-pip
   • Arch based distros pacman -S python python-pip
   • Fedora dnf install python3 python3-pip

3. Install poetry

4. Clone this repo
   git clone https://github.com/joaofauvel/move-unmarker.git && cd move-unmarker

5. Install requirements
   poetry install