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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I remove the lock on the PDF and use Acrobat's Touchup Object tool to remove the annoying line of text. I have to go page-by-page to remove it, but it's only a couple of minutes for a very large book.
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Curious about this, I checked Usenet and found a batch of more than 200 O'reilly books. I downloaded around half a dozen random books, and they seem to be "real" PDFs, not OCR jobs. Attached is a single page from one with
registration marks on every page. I was going to post one page from another of the random ones showing the high quality of the formatting and text (real text, no typos, images are embedded objects) but it was still restricted from editing (I know that can be cracked or bypassed, but not worth bothering with for this.) These appear to be "real" PDFs to me.
Link to search results on Usenet search engine (which is not a download site-- just an index.)