Even so, there's also the alternative of using the last version of Master PDF Editor 4, which is free for non-commercial use with no restrictions. That's not the case for editing the PDF metadata though. It's worth nothing that with version 5, Master PDF editor has removed some features from its free to use version, like editing or adding text, inserting images and more, and for such features you need to buy the app or else it will add a watermark to your PDF documents. It also allows editing (and viewing) the following PDF metadata tags: Title, Subject, Author, Creator, Producer and Keywords.ĭownload Master PDF Editor by visiting its downloads page (it's available for CentOS, RedHat, and Ubuntu - I did not try to see if it runs on Debian). It can create, edit (insert text or images), annotate, view, encrypt, and sign PDF documents. Master PDF Editor is a proprietary application to edit PDF documents on Linux, Windows and macOS. Using Master PDF Editor to edit PDF meta tags on Linux PDFMtEd is a bit weird to run and it uses the old Python 2, but it's lightweight and made using open source tools, while Master PDF Editor is a complete suite for editing PDF files, so it's pretty heavy on system resources, and it's not free and open source software either. Why 2 tools? Because none of these two is even close to perfect in my opinion, so users should decide which best suits their needs. To edit PDF metadata tags on Linux using a GUI we'll use Master PDF Editor or PDFMtEd. Run the exiftool command to get metadata of the specified image: exiftool test.This article explains how to edit PDF metadata tags on Linux, using either a GUI or from the command line.Įdit PDF metadata tags on Linux using a GUI Wget -O $ Testing ExifToolĭownload image from the Internet: wget -O test.jpg Extract tar.gz file and go to the ExifTool source directory. Go to your home directory and download the latest version of ExifTool from official website. Sudo apt install -y checkinstall Install ExifTool It simplifies the installation and uninstallation process. Recommended to install ExifTool with checkinstall. This tutorial explains how to install ExifTool from source code on Raspberry Pi.

You can use the APT unless you want to install the latest version of ExifTool. On Raspberry Pi, ExifTool can be installed with APT package manager. It is a cross-platform tool that requires the Perl interpreter. ExifTool is a command line tool for reading, writing and updating metadata of media files like images, video, audio, and PDF.

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