[okular] [Bug 435120] Data protection: Removing or editing annotation metadata (author, date, time) should be possible

[Yuri Chornoivan]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435120

--- Comment #4 from Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor at ukr.net> ---
(In reply to Rainer Klute from comment #3)
> Ah, thanks, setting the author before editing is a viable way to go.
> Changing it afterwards on a per annotation basis might be tedious, but much
> better than not being able to change it at all. So I am fine with authors.
> 
> However, browsing the okular manual, I haven’t found any option to “change
> the date before annotating”. If you meant changing the date on the system
> level, I don’t think this a user-friendly option. For many, if not most,
> users it might not be an option at all.
> 
> Thanks for pointing me to the description of PDF Studio 2020’s “sanitize”
> functionality! That indeed seems to be what I meant. Being able to remove
> all dates from all (or from selected) annotations would really save my day.
> (I am not so much concerned about removing author information, but the
> mileage of others might vary.)
> 
> Thanks for consideration!

There are methods to batch remove all metadata:

https://sc015020.medium.com/removing-metadata-from-pdf-files-using-exiftool-and-qpdf-20090b75d7f0

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