Structural problem with PDF fools INEPT removal

[anakaine]

Hi all,

This is my first post here, although this seems to be a most active forum on this topic, so seems like the place to be.

I've been trying to remove the encryption ona pdf book I have so that I can use it on other devices, to no effect. It seems like most of the solutions on the market revolve around some form of the ineptpdf python scripts. Even the commercial programs.

The problem I have is that when I attempt to run the book through ineptpdf I have an error generated stating that there is a problem with the way the dictionary is constructed. Looking back through the script I'm not able to successfully comment these sections out - I guess it's a pretty integral part of the code.

Note that in the example I've used an older version of ineptpdf (circa version 4) to achieve viewing the error message. I've also tried running the book through the newest version (8.1.something).

The keyfile was generated with the equivalent python file v5 something.

Has anybody seen this before?

C:\Windows\system32>ineptpdfold.py
error writing pdf: Invalid dictionary construct: [/Author, '1\x02\xf4\x8b\x11\x9
8mlnp\x92\xa0\xc5v', /Producer, 'FN\xce\x82\x11\x91b4=\x08\xa3\x99\x89$\x17\xe2\
xe0dP\xec\x10\xbcL\x8b3\x11\xf3$uL\xed\x8b8\xf4\xb epZ\xe9f\x8c\xdd\x15,22\xe3\x8
d\x9a\x1d\xf4L\x7f\x1b\xa2\xbe;\xa0\xed\xd1v\xdc#\ xeaq\xad\\\xe4N\x83F\xeb\xc6\x
19\xe0z\xa7{\xabR\xafl\xf4M\x96\xd9hc\xae\x8ak.S.X x\xae\x1ee\xdc\x0eBE\r"\x90\xf
f&\xe2t', /ModDate, '1Y\xb4\xd7I\xc7:v\x7f\x13\xc5\xe4\x91<u\x92\x8bt7 \xb9O\xe8\
x1e', /Keywords, /Creator, '4\x07\xe9\x85\x1d\xd6C.\nE\x84\xbd\xc7jg\xe5\xf5p \x
b6I\xf6\t\xc6`J', /Title, '&.\xc3\xc75\x9fd) G\xd7\x91\xcec.\xc8\xc3!r\xf7\x11\x
bf\x19\xa07\r\xb7t4\x13\xa8', /CreationDate, '1Y\xb4\xd7I\xc7:q\x7f\x13\xc5\xe4\
x930t\x90\x8bt7\xb9O\xe8\x1e', /EBX#5fPUBLISHER, '&.\xc3']