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Strip PDF metadata using PDFtk
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strippdfmeta
#!/bin/sh
set -e
pdftk "$1" dump_data output "$1.metadata"
sed -e 's/InfoValue: .*/InfoValue:/' < "$1.metadata" > "$1.metadata-stripped"
cp "$1" "$1.bak"
pdftk "$1.bak" update_info "$1.metadata-stripped" output "$1"
rm "$1.metadata" "$1.metadata-stripped" "$1.bak"
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