CentOS / RHEL: sudo yum install perl-Image-ExifTool yad qpdf git.Fedora: sudo dnf install perl-Image-ExifTool yad qpdf git.Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, Zorin OS, Elementary OS, and any other Linux distribution based on Debian or Ubuntu: sudo apt install libimage-exiftool-perl yad qpdf git.Let's install these (except Sejda, which is not available in the repositories): You may also install Sejda if you wish, an extensible and configurable PDF manipulation layer library that's recommended but not required to run PDFMtEd. The tool requires YAD, ExifTool and Qpdf to run, while Git is needed to get the code from its GitHub repository. Let's install PDFMtEd (PDF Metadata Editor). This tool allows editing the following PDF meta tags: Author, Title, Year, Keywords and Subject. ] Since this tool still uses Python2, see the other solutions from this article, or try pdftag instead. 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.

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

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