Sometimes, for example when sending a review of a paper, I do not want the pdf file to contain any metadata. Ideally, the editorial process should take care of this, but I do not want to take any chances. In this post1, I explain a simple method to strip metadata from PDF files.

See also: Original Source by Aditya Mahajan

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