You’ll see the properties of your image file. On the new window appearing with properties, click on the ‘Details’ tab. Then find ‘Properties’ at the end of the menu. Right-click on the image you need to remove the metadata from. I found the original in a github gist and decided to make a project out of it for easy deployment. Here’s how to .emove your personal data from image and video files on Windows.

The script saves the original and saves a. Then simply anywhere in your path where your PDF exists, for example cd ~/Downloads then run clean_pdf.sh filename.pdf. Then run sudo chmod +x clean_pdf.sh to make it executable (assuming you cd to properly location first). sh file into your bin folder somewhere in your path, I use /usr/local/bin, so you can do a git clone into any folder then do a ln -s pdf-cleaner/clean_pdf.sh /usr/local/bin or cp pdf-cleaner/clean_pdf.sh /usr/local/bin/ To run, make sure you have the prereqs installed then drop the. Move the executables to the proper location Get precompiled binary of xpdf which included pdfinfo Move to your proper downloads folder to stay organized The fastest way is to download the precombiled binary from foolabs for xpdf, which includes pdfinfo:

QPDFĪs of writing the easiest way is just to download the latest package that works for El Capitan, when a homebrew version becomes available, I will hopefully update this. Otherwise manually find the following: QPDF, pdftk, pdfinfo. If you are running OSX, you can try the install.sh (coming soon) file to install all the prerequisites. Please leave any comments in the issues section, and I welcome a security and thorough code review. This allows you to clean a PDF and it's embedded images from any metadata.

Mac metadata cleaner