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    from pathlib import Path

    from pypdf import PdfWriter
    from pypdf.generic._data_structures import StreamObject

    books_directory = Path("books")
    export_directory = Path("export")
    for input_filepath in books_directory.glob("*.pdf"):
    output_filepath = export_directory / input_filepath.name
    print("=====", output_filepath, "=====")
    writer = PdfWriter(clone_from=str(input_filepath))

    for page in writer.pages:
    contents = page._get_contents_as_bytes()

    watermark = contents.find(b'/Watermark')
    if watermark > -1:
    contents = contents[:watermark - 1]
    stream = StreamObject()
    stream.set_data(contents)
    page.replace_contents(stream)

    with open(output_filepath, "wb") as f:
    writer.write(f)