[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Metadata anonymisation toolkit

[Jonas Meurer]

Hi Uwe,

2lorado at web.de:
> We missing the function for PDF-Files in the "Metadata anonymisation
> toolkit" Ver. 0.6.1-4 (Stretch Debian 64bit).

Due to security issues, PDF support was disabled on purpose in mat. You
might want to look into mat2, the successor of mat:

It's not available yet in Debian Stretch, but you can find it packaged
for Debian Buster: https://packages.debian.org/mat2. The package should
be installable on Debian Stretch without problems.

Mat2 brings improved PDF support: by default, it completely re-renders
the pages of a PDF - which unfortunately is the only reliable way to
remove all metadata from PDFs.

But there also is the '--lightweight' commandline option which keeps the
text structure but in turn might not remove *all* metadata.

See the documentation at
https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2#notes-about-the-lightweight-mode for
more information.

Kind regards
 jonas

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