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sneakers-the-rat / clean_pdf.sh
Last active February 14, 2024 16:52
Strip PDF Metadata
# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# Recursively find pdfs from the directory given as the first argument,
# otherwise search the current directory.
# Use exiftool and qpdf (both must be installed and locatable on $PATH)
# to strip all top-level metadata from PDFs.
#
# Note - This only removes file-level metadata, not any metadata
# in embedded images, etc.
#
# Code is provided as-is, I take no responsibility for its use,