Gallery of Adobe Remedies Gallery of Adobe Remedies A large amount of useful content is now encoded as PDF (Portable Document Format) files, including files marketed for eBook document readers. Unfortunately, some of this content is not usable in all the lawful ways a purchaser desires, due to access control mechanisms created by Adobe and adopted by content publishers to the detriment of their customers. Computer professionals who have examined these mechanisms have found them easy to defeat. This web site will publish information about Adobe's access control mechanisms and the remedies people have devised to deal with them. PDF Password Recovery Tools Here are directories of links for and tools. You can, for example, purchase Eltima's.
Utility to Remedy fileOpen PDF Encryption ineptpdf (Google it) is a tool for bypassing fileOpen PDF encryption. June 2010: new fileOpen circumvention tool available from Tetrachroma: click for information. A while back, an anonymous contributor sent the source for a program that 'reads a pdf encrypted with the fileOpen plugin, and attempts to write a plain pdf.'
- I'm in a bit of a pickle because I have a few textbooks in PDF format. How to remove DRM from PDFs? It contains ineptpdf which removes ADEPT FileOpen.
- This plug-in is required to open PDF files encrypted by FileOpen rights management software.
Remove fileopen security from pdf Fileopen and APS PDF DRM Removal Script The project latest script version: ineptpdf 8. Fileopen DRM for PDF circumvented PDF 128-bit security v.4 protection without password or key I am using 8.4.51 to try to remove DRM from a FileOpen pdf.
I have no way to contact the author, but you can send bug reports to me and I'll post them here. Xpdf and Poppler Remedies Xpdf is an open-source PDF viewer for Unix, VMS, OS/2, and Windows, available. The documentation of the decryption feature: 'If any security features are turned on by the creator of a PDF document, the PDF file will be encrypted.
These security features let an author disallow printing, copying text/graphics, editing, and/or adding annotations.' Smith at has created a patch to Xpdf that disables the security features. The patch (revised July 24, 2001) is available.
Smith writes: Patch xpdf (the diff is against 0.92 but should be easily adaptable to future version) and feed '-enable-antikick' to 'configure'. The patch is bigger than it should be; all but the bottom twenty lines or so are diffs to the 'configure' script itself. The name 'antikick' came from Harlan Ellison's 'Kick Net Piracy' campaign, btw. Ironically, I fully support him in this. Has contributed an for version 0,93, also available.
See his for more information. (Older 0,92 version and.) Mr. Nieuwenhuis writes that the difference between Mr. Smith's patch and his are that his does not disable printing protection, it only re-enables copy and paste. FreeBSD incorporates this patch into their xpdf port. An anonymous correspondent has sent that work in versions 0.92 and 0.93 and should be easily adaptable to all future versions, and another anonymous reader sent in a.
Yet another anonymous correspondent had a comment about. Erik Hovland contributed for XPDF version 3.02p12. Is a PDF rendering library based on the Xpdf 3.0 code base. Eriv Hovland has for poppler release 0.6.4. Ghostscript is a Remedy A helpful reader wrote in to remind me that: 'GhostScript/GhostView.
Handle PDF just fine and have been completely bypassing its restriction schemes for quite some time without much fanfare. There are precompiled versions for most popular OSes, donwloadable from many places. The home page for Ghostscript is The sourceforge project page for Ghostscript is Also see the page.
Geoffrey Keating's page offers appropriate patches to Ghostcript for reading encrypted PDF files. For versions 4.01 and higher, use build on Geoffrey Keating's work. Laird offers a web form you can use to convert PDF files to Postscript, and a hack for for encrypted PDF files.
Thanks to reader Rashkae, who adds: 'You can then do a pdf2ps and back again with ps2pdf to generate a clean, unencrypted, printable, PDF file.' Rusty Mase, a professional cryptanalyst, Kyler Laird to crack a sample PDF file he supplied. To Mase's surprise, Laird did it. See if you can do it too. An anonymous contributor tells how to Convert a printable Adobe eBook to an unprotected PDF file by following. Older version of MacOS X PDF Viewer is a Remedy Marc Hoffman (see March 3, 2002 entry) that the document previewer bundled with Mac OS X allows one to strip the security features from a PDF automatically simply by printing the document to a Postscript file and redistilling it.
Read his report,. The claim in the report that password protection will prevent PDF unlocking turns out to be untrue; the version of the document provided here, by a third party, has the password removed.
The document is posted with Mr. Hoffman's permission. Another correspondent wrote in January 2006 that she didn't even need to save the document as a Postscript file; it sufficed to 'print' it as a PDF under a different name. But in February 2006, someone informed me that Preview Version 3.0.4 (398) under Mac OSX 10.4.5 does not permit these operations on password-protected PDF files.
Adobe Acrobat Access Plug-in is a Remedy An anonymous informant writes: The Adobe Acrobat Access Plug-in 4.05 enables vision-impaired users to read Adobe PDF documents in Acrobat 4.0x or Acrobat Reader 4.0x. The Access plug-in supplements the standard Acrobat and Reader display of PDF documents with an alternative view that supports screen-reading applications for Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT. This view presents the textual content of a PDF file in a separate window. The window contains the text in an approximated reading order.
Standard Acrobat features, such as hypertext links, notes, bookmarks, sounds, and movies, are available in the Access view. Once this is installed, press control + 4 to move to 'TEXT' mode. This mode enables you to copy it to a text2speech program. Or wherever you want. I've tested it in Acrobat 4 and it works. You then press Control + e to move back to the standard viewing mode. EBooks Purchased from Amazon.com An anonymous source has provided instructions for.
This requires Acrobat 6; Acrobat 7 reportedly does not work. Another anonymous source writes: 'I tried using to print to a PDF file. I then found I could read the printed PDF file in other machines.' Information About PDF, by Anonymous.
Also see the., a Perl script to decrypt PDF files, by Anonymous. For 'Adobe password recovery' isilo eBook format Here is the decrypter for isilo format, written by 'klemm'.
It's currently incomplete: it only works on the first isilo format, not the newer/current format. This decrypter is however successfuly used by the opie-reader ebook reader.,. Microsoft's.LIT Format contains information about removing protections from eBooks encoded in the Microsoft.LIT format. Source code is mirrored. Information About eBooks, MSNBC.com article (July 19, 2001) by Siva Vaidhyanathan. Call for Technical Submissions I am interested in receiving and publishing the following kinds of information:.
Technical descriptions of the access control and encryption mechanisms associated with PDF files and/or eBooks. Technical descriptions of remedies for these mechanisms, e.g., patches, key recovery algorithms, modified plug-ins, etc. Source code for implementing these remedies.
Mail submissions to. Anonymous submissions are fine. Note: this web site is for discussion of purely technical information of interest to computer scientists and lawful content users. I am not interested in receiving rants about Adobe or the DMCA. Go to the site for that. RTMPE.txt file In 2009 Adobe used a to suppress an open source implementation of a network protocol called RTMP.
Here is the and the. More info is available.
Code As Speech For more on the issue of computer code as protected speech, visit the. Old Stuff: The ElcomSoft Controversy The current technology leader in Adobe remedies is a Russian company called. Unfortunately their best-known programmer, Bauman Moscow State Technical University computer science Ph.D.
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Student Dmitri Sklyarov, was held in the US for several months in 2001, pending prosecution under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and is no longer speaking publicly about these issues. ElcomSoft has announced a new PDF password recovery tool. Details available at their and this in Wired. Defcon 9 (2001) presentation by Dmitri Sklyarov, 'eBooks security - theory and practice', in format, format (no graphics), or., by Bruce Perens. Of ElcomSoft's AEBPR (Advanced E-Book Processor) software version 2.2, which decrypts 25% of an E-book as a demonstration. Note: ElcomSoft is no longer distributing this software., an article by at O'Reilly Network Weblogs, nicely summarizes the case through July 2001.
Anonymous sources have confirmed that adding the following entry to the Windows registry will unlock the software so that it will decrypt 100% of a document: HKEYLOCALMACHINE Software Elcom Advanced eBook Processor Registration 'Code'='LEPR-T2K7-NA8Z-3DUE-EVDQS-TMPV-MBAUB'. From someone who has personally verified that this works: 'Using this program I was able to convert a locked Adobe eBook to PDF format. I then purchased an ebook from Barnes&Noble only because I had a copy of AEBPR. I will not distribute copies of the unlocked PDF file, but I would not have purchased an ebook in the Adobe format when it is locked to an operating system on a single computer.' Problem report: 'I downloaded the free trial version of AEBPR, then edited the registry as indicated in your 'Adobe Remedies' site, and it worked beautifully on the free ebooks I had downloaded previously (using Adobe ebook Reader 2.1).
I then bought an ebook; however, it was necessary to update to Adobe ebook reader 2.2. Unfortunately, the attempt to decrypt the new ebook resulted in the error, 'Bad data in the son.dat. Then, 'No EBX books available.' AEBPR son.dat Problem Adobe has disabled the earlier version 2.2 of their eBook reader, so that it can no longer be installed on new machines. Their certification server does not give a certificate for this version anymore. According to an anonymous reader, a solution to the problem is as follows:. Find someone who already has version 2.2 build 200 installed and activated.
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Ask him to send you all files from his 'Data Vouchers' folder. Put these files in your Data Vouchers folder, overwriting your own ones. Run the Reader. It will show the following message: Voucher Update Required You will not be able to read your eBooks until you update your installation of Acrobat eBook Reader. Please contact Adobe Systems Customer Support at for assistance in completing this update. Challenge:.
Call Adobe, give them the Challenge, and receive an activation code. Enter that code into the Reader - it will updated. Now you can purchase the books from that version, and use AEBPR to convert them to PDF. I don't have these Data Vouchers files, and I don't know anyone who does, so please don't email me asking how to obtain them. Dave Touretzky The old fix to the son.dat problem, sent in by an anonymous reader, was as follows: 'Don't use the current version of eBookReaderInstall.exe (size: 10,621,400 bytes or 10372 KB.) Instead use the earlier version (also named 2.2 build 200!) which has a size of 10,582,776 bytes (or 10334 KB). You can find a copy of the earlier version at:. If you already have installed the later version of this program, you'll have to uninstall it and remove the DATA folder before installing the earlier version.
Then verify your installation with a free e-book from.' This no longer works, since Adobe changed their certification server to block it. On PDF Security 'explains what the ElcomSoft tools can and cannot do, and takes a brief look at the PDF specification to uncover the fundamental flaw in PDF security.' Also available in. 'Boycott Adobe' graphic from the now defunct www.boycottadobe.com web site.
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation will answer all your questions. Offers the most comprehensive coverage of the case. Legal Disclaimer: 'Adobe' is a registered trademark of. Last modified: Tue Apr 12 02:59:30 EDT 2011.
Intrusive DRM often means ebooks you've purchased can only be read on one type of device, especially when it comes to the Amazon products like the. Here's how to remove ebook DRM, so you can read your purchases on any of your multiple devices, including competing e-readers. Install Calibre is free to download, and the latest version for Windows is 1.36.0. There are also versions available for OSX, Linux, and every version of Windows since XP SP3. We used the Windows version on a PC running 64-bit, converting files from a 4th Gen Kindle. Once the 54MB installer has downloaded, run it, and it will ask to be pointed to any folders you may already have for existing e-book purchases.
If you don't have any such folder, create a new one. You'll also be asked to plug in the type of e-Reader you use. Depending on which one you select, you'll then be presented with a range of options. Fill them in, and then Calibre will start up for the first time. Install the DRM-remover Calibre supports various plug-ins, and we're going to use Apprentice Alf's DRM Removal Tool for e-Books.
You can download the latest version from. You'll download a.zip file containing three folders and a readme.txt file; unzip them to a new folder on your desktop. Now fire up Calibre, and click the large Preference button on the top menu, far right hand side. Select the 'Change Calibre behaviour' option, then scroll down to the advanced section before clicking on Plugins.
A new screen will pop up, and you need to click the 'Load plugin from file' button at the bottom right corner. Point the software to the folder you unzipped Alf's tools to, then click on the DeDRMcalibreplugin folder. Then highlight the DeDRMplugin.zip file, and hit the Open button. Click Yes when the virus warning starts up. Shut down Calibre, and then fire it up once more. Remove the DRM Now that all of the hard work is done, you can simply remove DRM by importing books into Calibre's library.
If you already have your books stored on your PC, simply drag and drop them into Calibre's main window. If you're taking books off your e-Reader, plug it into your PC via USB.
Using File Explorer, drag and drop the e-Books from your e-Reader into Calibre's main window, and all that nasty DRM will be stripped out. However, Kindle users will need to jump through a few extra hoop first. Head back into Calibre's Preferences menu, then go to Advanced, then Plugins, then double click the line called 'File type plugins'. You'll see the DeDRM plugin; double click it. Select the first entry 'eInk Kindle ebooks', then click the green plus button in the new window. A small empty window will pop up, and this needs your Kindle's serial number. Finding the serial number varies depending on the version of Kindle you're using – on our older 4th Gen Kindle, the serial number was found on page two of the Kindle's 'Settings' screen.
To find where your serial, simply type 'serial location', along with the model name of your Kindle, into Google. Once you've got the serial number, type it into the Calibre window, removing any spaces as you go.
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Click Close, then OK – you should now be back at the Calibre Preferences Plugins window – click Apply in the top right. Now head back to File Explorer and navigate to the area on your Kindle that stores your books. You'll notice that each book has several files associated with it. Our copy of Doctor Sleep By Stephen King actually had five different file types -.apnx,.azw3,.ea,.han and.phl. Drag and drop every file associated with the book into the main Calibre window – as you can see in our screenshot, a warning will pop up about duplicates. Click the 'Select None' button, and then OK.
Voila, you'll see your book now in Calibre's main Window, and it's 100% DRM free. For some reason, our book showed up twice in the list, but only one of them worked – we removed the other by right clicking it and selecting 'remove book'. Converting and testing To test that the DRM really has been removed, and show you how to change the book type in the process, we're going to make Doctor Sleep a PDF.
Right click the book title in the main Calibre window, and select Convert books Convert Individually. A new window will open, laden with dozens of options to tailor the output. Change the Output format in the top right to PDF, then click OK in the bottom right. You can also change it to any other e-Reader format, but we wanted to use PDF so we could see it easily on the PC. After about 30 seconds of page crunching, Calibre spat out Doctor Sleep as a PDF. However, the font size was huge, so we converted it again, but this time used the font size option on the PDF Output options screen to make it much smaller.
After fiddling with a few of the settings here, we finally ended up with a PDF that was as clearly laid out as the original e-Book but playable on any device. Removing DRM and changing file type are only two of many of Calibre's features.
Needless to say, if you've got an extensive e-Library read over multiple devices, this free software is an essential download.