[Outdoors] How can I protect myself from being tracked by my institution or publishers when sharing articles?

Faenor8 Post time 2025-1-8 21:20:01 | Show all posts |Read mode
Edited by Faenor8 at 2025-1-8 21:19

Hi everyone here,

On my breaks at work, I often download and share articles. I think it might be suspicious to download articles about topics as different as sociology and fundamental physics. It already happened to me to share >100 articles in a day.
I really don't want publishers or my institution to detect this.
I used to remove metadata and texts like "Downloaded from [my institution] on [date]" from articles with Adobe Pro. But I don't have access to Adobe anymore.
For now I use pdf24 to do this, but I can't search for a text to delete, so I have to manually delete them on every page (it's not a problem for ~5 pages articles, but it is for 50 pages ones).

Do you have any software advice or software in mind?
Thx
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seus Post time 2025-4-17 20:18:35 | Show all posts

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It is far from being convenient, but I have an idea of doing: pdf to jpeg, batch crop selection with IrfanView (excluding whichever edge consists meta-data), then jpeg to pdf. This can make the task easier for more than 50 pages, but not for any less, I guess.

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sharkbear Post time 2025-4-18 14:37:59 | Show all posts
Have you try WPS? It has a function as Batch Watermark Removal. May require VIP but it's very cheap.
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hypatiaa Post time 2025-5-1 06:00:56 | Show all posts
You could try using sejda.com crop function
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dicor Post time 2025-5-2 14:40:15 | Show all posts
cad-cas pdf editor
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