Google books watermarks

Operalala · Post by **Operalala** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 9:24 pm

Does anyone know how to remove the Google image from the bottom of PD files found on Google books? (It's not even like it's Google's property, the scan has Harvard stamps all over it.)
From Acrobat, I can target the image, and have the options to copy or save the image, but I can't remove it.
Thanks for any advice, Operalala

Website · Post by **vinteuil** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:13 pm

http://www.imslpforums.org/viewtopic.php?t=1372[/url]

jsnfmn · Post by **jsnfmn** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:48 am

I don't think this thread is applicable to the google scans. I've done a few of them myself, and though I think you can only do this if you have acrobat professional, if you go to the tools menu (I think this is right, I am not at my main computer right now) and select the touchup object tool. Now you can select the google watermark and you can either hit the delete key or use the menu to delete it. Now you just have to do it on every page.

Post by **Leonard Vertighel** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:52 am

There has been some discussion on Google scans in that thread, but not on the page Perlnerd linked. It starts here:
http://www.imslpforums.org/viewtopic.php?p=9068#9068

horndude77 · Post by **horndude77** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:51 pm

Regarding the 600dpi vs 150dpi issue that google's music scans have: I've managed to file a bug through one of the google books developers. He thanked me for the bug report, but said not to hold my breath. I doubt that it's high on their priorities.

Operalala · Post by **Operalala** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:30 pm

Thank you jsnfmn!

Adobe Acrobat > Tools > Advanced Editing > TouchUp Object Tool

target, delete
page down, click, delete
page down, click, delete
...

Operalala · Post by **Operalala** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 12:47 am

I found out that the 'TouchUp Object Tool' is only found on Adobe Acrobat Professional, not on Adobe Acrobat Standard.

Post by **daphnis** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:04 am

That is correct. However, if you have Acrobat Pro, the easier and quicker way is to dump all the images out to file, sort the source folder by file size, delete all the files of ~2KB, then just recompile the remainder of the images into your PDF.

Operalala · Post by **Operalala** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:41 pm

Wow, that works! But I think I'll keep doing it manually for two reasons:
1. It takes less than 2 seconds per page, and I can have the whole document done in less time than it takes for the program to export all the images.
2. A few of the images that were originally on one page got spread over more than one page (i.e. including a chart and it's labels), and I'm not enough of a photoshopper to be able to restore these quickly.