Converting a DRM-Protected PDF to an Editable Text PDF in the Linux Environment
(We recommend you bookmark this blog. Trying to find helpful information in forums usually just ends in making you frustrated and angry. This blog does not speculate or guess. If we post it, we've tried it and it works. As with all our posts, if you don't care about the background info, you can head straight to the yellow highlighted sections for the problem and the fix.) Scenario and Caveat I download and convert a LOT of public domain books. Sometimes the scanned pdf version is DRM-protected, for some reason that defies all logic for un-copyrighted works in the public domain, and probably defies all legality. I use Okular for my PDF reader/editor. I want to be able to open the pdf in Okular and make bookmarks and annotations. I also want to be able to highlight certain passages, and to be able to copy and paste certain sentences or paragraphs. Finally, often my end game is to produce a docx or odt version. I cannot do that as long as the pdf file is DRM-protected. I need a wa...