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Do you know an easy way to remove all metadata from existing pdf files?

  • September 15, 2021
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wicki
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I would like to do this with the on-board resources of FME.

 

The PDF-Reader can read out the metadata, but can I use the PDF-Writer to overwrite it without changing the rest of the file?

 

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How does the FME read out the metadata? If a library such as exiftool is used for this, then this could also be done using a command line with the SystemCaller.

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You could set up a PDF-to-PDF translation but that would literally translate all of the data (and given that PDF has some peculiarities I'm not sure how smart this is). I think an approach using a SystemCaller and an external application is indeed the way to go.

FME rocks! \m/


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