Pdf Metadata Editor

An advanced GUI editor for PDF Metadata. It is a Java-based graphical user interface (GUI) application that allows users to edit metadata in PDF files. The application utilizes Apache PDFBox as its core library for PDF processing and metadata manipulation.

Installation

Prebuild installers

Prebuilt installers for all supported operating systems can be found from the official website or from the releases section in this repository.

Flathub

flatpak install flathub me.broken_by.PdfMetadataEditor

AppImage (Linux)

Download the AppImage for your architecture (x86_64 or aarch64) from the download page, then:

chmod +x Pdf_Metadata_Editor-*.AppImage
./Pdf_Metadata_Editor-*.AppImage

The command line interface (and the batch launcher) are reachable through symlinks with the respective name:

ln -s Pdf_Metadata_Editor-*.AppImage pmedit-cli
./pmedit-cli --help

Arch Linux (AUR)

Arch Linux users can install the package from the AUR.

yay -S pdf-metadata-editor-bin

Building from source

Build JAR

mvn clean package -DskipTests -Dpackages.skip=true

You will find the app JAR in modules/editor-gui/target/jar/

Build OS specific installer/app

mvn clean package -DskipTests

This will build all supported installers for your current OS and place them in modules/editor-gui/target/packages/

Help

Documentation is available at the Help page

License

Distributed under the GPL v3 License. See the LICENSE file for more information.