I'm trying to help create a neighborhood directory and I want to discourage someone from harvesting contact info (especially email addresses) from that. Is there any easy way to prevent someone from copying and pasting that text from the PDF? Update Goal here is to make the PDF no easier to harvest email addresses from than the current paper directory, and to make the PDF directory as useful as the paper directory. The online pdf directory will have advantages such as always being up to date and saving some printing costs (or passing those costs on to folks who want to print the document).
Clay Nichols asked Nov 16, 2009 at 17:30 Clay Nichols Clay Nichols 12.1k 30 30 gold badges 110 110 silver badges 174 174 bronze badges Rasterize every page. Commented Nov 16, 2009 at 17:35Rasterizing is overkill though - just render text using vector graphic primitives (so it remains scalable, just nor parsable).