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| # 1) install exiftool and qpdf | |
| # https://exiftool.org/ | |
| # http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/ | |
| # (can be installed with homebrew: brew install exiftool qpdf ) | |
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| # 2) remove metadata - this step is reversible, so we will need to recreate the PDF afterwards | |
| exiftool -all:all= /location/of/some/file.pdf | |
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| # 3) linearize pdf - "commit" the previous changes | |
| qpdf --linearize /location/of/some/file.pdf /location/of/some/other_file.pdf | |
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| # 4) confirm it's gone ya? | |
| exiftool -all /location/of/some/other_file.pdf |
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