How do I remove identifying metadata from a PDF without breaking it?

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  • exiftool

    ExifTool meta information reader/writer

  • Exiftool can do exactly what you’re asking on pretty much any binary including PDF.

  • You can try Metadata Cleaner from flathub. It has a minimal/light cleaning option which you can try to clean least amount of metadata. You can check this out.

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  • exifcleaner

    Cross-platform desktop GUI app to clean image metadata

  • Another vote for https://exifcleaner.com/

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