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Old 09-22-2012, 08:59 AM   #1
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Is there software that collects pdf metadata?


If not printing the meta data to a file, then editing it directly.

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Old 09-22-2012, 10:52 AM   #2
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pdftk. You can extract metadata using the dump_data command and save the output to a text file. Then you can edit/modify the metadata and put them back using the update_info command, e.g.
Code:
$ pdftk file.pdf dump_data output metadata.txt
$ vi metadata # or edit by means of your preferred editor
$ pdftk file.pdf update_info metadata.txt output updated_file.pdf # check the newly created PDF and...
$ mv updated_file.pdf file.pdf
 
  


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