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DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit


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If you want to create your own tracking dots matrix and add it to a pdf document, pass the contents as parameters (see deda_create_dots -h).$ deda_create_dots PDFINPUT Scan the document (300 dpi) and pass the lossless file to$ deda_anonmask_create -r INPUTFILE This creates 'mask.json', the individual printer's anonymisation mask. Install deda accordig to chapter 0 Execute$ export PATH="$PATH:$(python -c 'import site,os; print(os.path.join(site.USER_BASE, "bin"))')"

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