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Purge metadata, convert PDF to rendered graphics (including bitmaps), add OCR layer.
There are tools for this already.. but it sure would be nice to have a Firefox plugin that scrubs all metadata on downloads by default.
(Note I'm hoping this exists and someone will Um, Actually me)
It’s a multi step process, but if you still have the XPS Viewer from windows 10, you can ‘print’ the file to XPS, then open it in the XPS Viewer and ‘print’ to PDF using your favourite print to pdf solution. That strips the metadata but doesn’t rasterize everything.
I feel like why not just print to pdf from your pdf viewer?
I tried that before, but was unsuccessful in clearing out metadata. Whatever options I tried, PDF-to-PDF just output an identical file with a different name.