以编程方式更改PDF作者

Question

In my office we have about 1000 PDFs that have arbitrary title and author information. My bosses had a spreadsheet created with the PDFs filename and an appropriate title and appropriate author information.

I would like to find a programmatic way to move the data from the Excel sheet to the PDF attributes?

My preferred language is Python so I looked for a Python library to do this, each library I looked at had the author and title fields as read-only.

If Python doesn't have a library that works I am okay using VBA, VB.NET, JavaScript... I will take this as an opportunity to learn a new language.

Answer 1

If you want to learn java you can use the Apache PDFBox

Here is an implementation example.

Answer 2

Use Action Wizard in Acrobat X Pro.

Create New Action.

Setup Start With , and Save To step.

Set checkbox Overwrite existing files .

Select Content . Select Add Document Description .

Left mouse click in option. Uncheck Autor checkbox Leave As Is and enter new Autor name.

Press Save button, set name action Your Action Name .

Run Action:

File - Action Wizard - Your Action Name .

I test it - work).