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  1. Sign in to your DocHub account. If you don’t have one yet, you can register in a few mouse clicks with your existing credentials or by connecting your current email account.
  2. Complete the registration and go to the Dashboard. There, you can view your editing history and add new files.
  3. Pick the New Document button and add your document using the most convenient method.
  4. Open your file for revision and access the “PDF sanitize metadata” feature.
  5. Save adjustments and download the results on your computer.

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How to PDF sanitize metadata

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[Music] pdfs contain all sorts of metadata that makes it easy to find out who created it file names modification history and so much more while you can easily modify your metadata in apps like docHub pro theres also a free way to change your data without paying heres what you need to do if youre just performing a single task sedja has a pretty straightforward dedicated pdf editor just click on the link in the description below to head to the site then click on upload pdf files to get started once your file has been uploaded youll be shown what fields you can edit or fill out any information that was present and readable from your document like its creation date and time will be already filled in you can add a new field by clicking on the add button at the bottom of the form under name type in what you want to label the text box then type in what you want in the box under value to add in an artist field for example type in artist under name then the name of the artist under v

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Edit or append document metadata Choose File Properties, click the Description tab, and then click Additional Metadata. Select Advanced from the list on the left. To edit the metadata, do any of the following, and then click OK.
What does it mean to sanitize a PDF? Modern documents have more than just text. Whenever you send a PDF, there are still hidden pieces of data and metadata that tag along with the document. When you sanitize a PDF, it removes the hidden data and metadata, so the file is safe to pass on.
docHub X provides two choices: Remove Hidden Information and Sanitize Document. When you Remove Hidden Information, you have the option to select the items you want to remove. Sanitize Document does not provide a selection; it removes all hidden information and metadata automatically.
Use the Remove Hidden Information feature to find and remove content from a document that you dont want, such as hidden text, metadata, comments, and attachments. When you remove items, additional items are automatically removed from the document.
0:07 2:50 docHub XI Training Tutorial Course - YouTube YouTube Start of suggested clip End of suggested clip To permanently remove the hidden data displayed in the results panel. Click the remove button anMoreTo permanently remove the hidden data displayed in the results panel. Click the remove button an informational dialog box launches and displays information regarding the removal of the hidden. Data.
It is found by pressing the Sanitize button in the toolbar while using the Redact tool. docHubs sanitization removes PDF metadata, embedded files, JavaScript, unreferenced data, hidden layers and comments, etc. You can also scan your document for metadata and selectively hide content/metadata to meet your use case.
What does it mean to sanitize a PDF? Modern documents have more than just text. Whenever you send a PDF, there are still hidden pieces of data and metadata that tag along with the document. When you sanitize a PDF, it removes the hidden data and metadata, so the file is safe to pass on.
Printing documents to PDF format removes revision metadata but it does not remove file description metadata. PDF files retain some basic file description metadata, such as author, file name, and date, which can be minimized if the proper conversion settings are used (see page 31).

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