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Old 01-01-2011, 08:47 PM
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Re: Remove DRM from PDF ebooks (Adobe Digital Editions)

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Originally Posted by Bluesoju View Post
First I came in here to thank you guys for helping me do this.

Second, I found the instructions a little bit hard to follow. So I wanna make it easier for the next person. It was also hard enough to find this method. I've been searching for hours and looking for a simple program to do this.

I will rewrite the steps and even include all the files I used. I'm on windows 7, 64 bit. However the file versions I used were 32 bit versions because I saw someone in this thread say to use those instead.
  1. All the files you need will be in the zip I'm about to link you to. Download this zip file:
    Code:
    http://rapidshare.com/files/434887428/for_stupid_digital_protection.zip
  2. Install python by running python 2.71.msi (originally found @ http://www.python.org/download/)
  3. Run 'pycrypto-2.1.0.win32-py2.7.exe' (I had problems running the regular python files, so i downloaded the windows binary file for python 2.7 @ http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/m...shtml#pycrypto )
  4. Find where your digital files are stored, in my case it was a pdf and it was saved in "C:\Users\ *YOUR_USER_NAME* \Documents\My Digital Editions" where *YOUR_USER_NAME* is the name of the admin account of your computer.
  5. Extract 'ineptepub.pyw', 'ineptkey.pyw' and 'ineptpdf74.pyw' into the directory from step 4.
  6. Run 'ineptkey.pyw'. It will find the key and write it to hard disk as "ADEPTKEY.DER " in the same directory.
  7. Since my file was a pdf, I ran the file 'ineptpdf74.pyw'. A popup will come up, now for the 'input file' find the pdf file (should be in the step 4 directory).
  8. Output file give it a name + a pdf extension, for example file.pdf
  9. And wa-la that's it. Hope that made it easier for you.

Some questions,

#1 Should I make this into a youtube tutorial and will there be any problems with doing it?

#2 If I distribute the new pdf file, will there be anything that can be traced back to me?

Anyway I'm so glad I don't have to use adobe digital edition.
Thank you for the steps. I would add just one more to this:
to get the ineptpdf74.pyw file, the latest version is found at hxxp://ainept.freewebspace.com/. It is not included with the tools_v2.3.zip archive
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