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ld72808862
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April 4, 2022
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Watermark detection in PDF Extract API

  • April 4, 2022
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I'm having issues where watermarking is interfering with extracting tables from some documents. I made an example document that fails to detect the existance of a table (see attached). I have other documents that I'm trying to extract data from that where the watermark is interfering with the extract API. Unfortunetly, I can't share those documents. Hopefully the example document is illustrative enough.

 

The logging I get is as follows:

INFO:adobe.pdfservices.operation.pdfops.extract_pdf_operation:All validations successfully done. Beginning ExtractPDF operation execution
INFO:adobe.pdfservices.operation.pdfops.extract_pdf_operation:Extract Operation Successful - Transaction ID: 3I6Y4FDws6sqf1xhkgvtFStaOQeVolt6
INFO:adobe.pdfservices.operation.internal.io.file_ref_impl:Moving file at /tmp/extractSdkResult/42afb4a4b44911ec952900155d058d1f.zip to target /home/lei/output/example.zip

I attached the pdf and the service output.

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ld72808862Author
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April 4, 2022

Is there anyway to remove the watermark or get the extract API to ignore the watermark?

Ben Vanderberg
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Ben VanderbergCommunity Manager
Community Manager
April 12, 2022

No luck probably on having PDF Extract API to ignore the watermark.

 

It looks like the watermark in your PDF isn't a properly generated watermark because otherwise I would typically suggest that you go into Acrobat and select "Remove Watermark", but that doesn't work because it isn't written into the file like a watermark should, just as an object.

 

You can remove the watermark manually in Adobe Acrobat DC by clicking on Edit PDF and selecting each of the characters and deleting them.

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