Remove text and/or image watermarks in PDF files and output PDF and/or DOCX files.
- Open source, UI based, single file, fully written in Python
- Automatically detect (i.e., guess) possible watermarks
- Support editing what watermarks to remove
- Support add customized text watermarks
- Support preview for each page
- Support output to PDF and/or DOCX files
- Support multi-thread via QThread
- Support MacOS and Windows (TESTED)
- Indicate processing progress
- Support to build as standalone executable
- NOT SUPPORT THOSE PDF FILES WHOSE CONTENT IS IMAGE
The pdf file for demonstration was downloaded from the Internet.
- Main UI (Mac)
- Main UI (Windows)
- Detect (Guess) Watermarks
- Preview Result
- Processing
- Output PDF
- Output DOCX
- MacOS
WatermarkTerminator-2.1-mac.zip
- Windows
WatermarkTerminator-2.1-win.zip
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Run Application
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Open File / Folder
Folders mean that files there have the same kind of watermarks.
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Click file to guess watermarks
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Edit (add or remove) watermarks
- Add only supports add text watermarks
- Remove supports both image and text
- Click Restore to reset with guessed watermarks
- The second column Count means that how many times this possible watermarks have appeared.
Trick: It probably must be a watermark if the count equals the pages count of the file.
Each time you click the files, the guessing process will run.
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Click Preview
- Click Prev for previous page
- Click Next for next page
- Enter a valid number and press return to jump to that page
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Select Output Format If Needed
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Click Destination: to Set Output Folder If Needed
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Run Selected / Run All
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Wait And See The Log Window Output
Tip: If you wanna process files in a folder, you should click a file ONCE. It means to guess watermarks ONCE since all files have the same watermarks.After Guessing, edit the watermarks, preview, and then run.
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MacOS
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PyCharm
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conda env file
- MacOS
see
wt-mac.yml, output by conda-env-export- Windows
see
wt-win.yml, output by conda-env-export -
Run
pytho main.py- Build
pyinstaller --windowed --onefile --clean --noconfirm --hidden-import PyQt5.QtXml main.py --name WatermarkTerminator- conda
conda env create -f wt.yml
- poppler
wget https://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-21.04.0.tar.xz
tar -zxf poppler-21.04.0.tar.xz cd poppler-21.04.0
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
make install- python-poppler-qt5
git clone https://github.com/frescobaldi/python-poppler-qt5
cd python-poppler-qt5
python setup.py build
python setup.py install
- sip
wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyqt/files/sip/sip-4.19.8/sip-4.19.8.tar.gz
- check sip
import sipconfig
print(sipconfig.Configuration().default_sip_dir)
# return os.path.join(sipconfig.Configuration().default_sip_dir, 'PyQt5')