Tuesday, February 11, 2014

[jexbzaar] Combatting PDF digital watermarking

PDF offers far more opportunities for steganography than plain text.

Particular worry is digital watermarking which may endanger a user's privacy.  Consider a project to bulk transcribe PDF documents back to plain text, perhaps many human volunteers.

Particular application is scientific publications behind a paywall.  Are they watermarking and prosecuting copyright infringement?

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