From digital-printing
Remove all metadata from a PDF — author, title, producer, creation date, comments, embedded XMP, and document info dictionary. Useful before sharing or printing externally. Triggers on phrases like "strip metadata", "remove author info", "scrub PDF metadata", "anonymize this PDF".
npx claudepluginhub danielrosehill/claude-code-plugins --plugin digital-printingThis skill uses the workspace's default tool permissions.
Wipe all identifying metadata from a PDF.
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Wipe all identifying metadata from a PDF.
<input>-clean.pdf./Title, /Author, /Subject, /Keywords, /Creator, /Producer, /CreationDate, /ModDate.exiftool is the most thorough — it handles both legacy Info dict and XMP.
exiftool -all:all= -overwrite_original_in_place=false -o output.pdf input.pdf
To also remove XMP and re-linearize cleanly, follow up with qpdf:
qpdf --linearize output.pdf output-final.pdf && mv output-final.pdf output.pdf
exiftool output.pdf
pdfinfo output.pdf
Both should show empty/default values for Author, Title, Producer, etc.
Producer and Creator may repopulate if downstream tools touch the file. Run strip-metadata last in any pipeline.Metadata-stripped PDF. Original preserved.