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glutanimate / PDFMtEd

View and modify PDF metadata on Linux graphically
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Batch-Processing #2

Open Nichtraucher opened 9 years ago

Nichtraucher commented 9 years ago

Hi!

This is a very nice piece of software. It would be pure awesomeness if it could process (in my case delete metadata and add tags/keywords) to more than just one file.

cheers

glutanimate commented 9 years ago

Hi,

thanks for the kind words.

You can batch-delete metadata with pdfmted-inspector, but I do like the idea of also being able to arbitrarily apply tags to multiple files at once. I'll get down to it as soon as I have some more time on my hands (which, unfortunately, might be a while).

In the meantime you can always use exiftool itself, which while maybe daunting at first I can assure you is a far more powerful tool than any of the scripts hosted in this repo. Exiftool also lends itself very well to batch operations. For instance, the following command would process all PDF files found in the specified directory while removing all author tags and setting the title for all documents to test:

exiftool -PDF:Title="test" -PDF:Author="" -ext pdf "~/Documents/PDF_files"

Hope that helps.