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Make Word document "impossible" to copy?

Real_Smoky
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Hello, everyone!

What I want to do:
make it impossible to copy parts or the whole text in a word document

What I tried:
restricting editing + adding a transparent rectangle over the text

Result:
I can not copy PARTS of a text anymore, but I can still use CTRL A to copy all of the text and copy it.

What I want to improve: make CTRL A also not work so if someone really wanted to copy it, they would have to use OCR

How I know that this is possible: basically, if you translate a docx using DeepL and download it, you can not select and copy the text, so obv. there is a way to do this, I just don't know how.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!

 

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7 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Export to img and paste it in a document or pdf

 

Deepl just puts a password on the text takes all of a second to get rid of that

An easy way to do this would be to export it to PDF via office, then open the PDF in GIMP. If you reexport it, I'm pretty sure it gets rid of all text information.

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Keep in mind that the premium features on some PDF readers that allow you to covert images to highlightable and copyable text are starting to get quite good, so niether of the methods mentioned are perfect (not that I see an alternative).

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6 minutes ago, will0hlep said:

Keep in mind that the premium features on some PDF

there are even some free websites that I use to convert images and PDFs to raw text. (for non-piracy reasons, of course)

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You can always take screenshots of the screen and run them through OCR.

 

Export to PDF and disable printing and copying and encrypt it ... that's about most you can do (even then user can just screenshot the screen and run through ocr)

 

@Fasauceome works in google docs or google drive, i forget which, haven't used it in a while ... upload a png image, then select open as word document and will do ocr on the fly.

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