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Old 05-29-2020, 07:45 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by Shohreh View Post
Turns out the PDF seems to contain images of high-definition text, which explains why it still looks OK even when zooming in.

So the only solution would be to run it through an OCR… which is too much work to get a clean layout.
k2pdfopt -mode copy -odpi 200 -ocr t -ocrlang fra -ocrd p protected.pdf

Result attached.
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File Type: pdf protected_k2opt.pdf (3.51 MB, 496 views)
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