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Re:Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique... by Aerroon on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @08:56AM (#30085383)
To spell it out further: if the two processed outputs from different accounts are bit-by-bit identical then it is impossible to tell them apart. Ie they cannot contain identifying data to you.

They might still contain data that groups those multiple accounts together though. Eg everyone in X university gets the same watermark.

Re:Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique... by ce4 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @10:38AM (#30086768)
Or encode the current date or week into the pdf. They could then correlate their log data with the day or week of retrieval