I need to convert a Word document to PDF file so that user would not be able to copy any text or anything from it (pdf file).
How can I do that?
Thank you.
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I need to convert a Word document to PDF file so that user would not be able to copy any text or anything from it (pdf file).
How can I do that?
Thank you.
Best Answer
You can set the not-copy flag in the pdf file using for example
pdftk
(there exists GUIs for it). You need to set an owner password.But since many pdf readers ignore not-copy/not-print-flags, another option would be to convert all the text to vector paths using e.g.
inkscape
, but this would bloat the pdf file heavily.In all cases, the user could use OCR-software to extract the text, so there is no safe solution.