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pdf-highlight-remover.sh
# depends on sudo apt install ghostscript
gs -o clean.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dQUIET \
-dDetectDuplicateImages=true -dCompressFonts=true \
-dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -sColorConversionStrategy=Gray \
-dProcessColorModel=/DeviceGray \
-dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 \
input.pdf
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