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Re: [iText-questions] removing metadata from existing PDF documents

Florian Effenberger

2005-06-19

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Hi Leonard,

> Just out of curiosity, why would you want to do that?
[...]
> Those should NEVER be changed/removed. That information is
> EXTREMELY important for use in determining the "pedigree" of a PDF...

I don't want anyone to know what program my PDFs were created with,
that's why I want to remove the metadata. Call me paranoid, but I want
to keep that secret. :-)

> You can indeed change that with PdfStamper as well.

Do I need to program in Java for that or is it available as run-ready
command line tool?

Thanks
Florian


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