Pdftitle is a project mainly written in Shell, based on the GPL-3.0 license.
Change the title of a PDF file
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This is a little bash program I wrote to change the title in the metadata of a PDF document. It provides a GUI and can therefore be integrated in graphical environments (e.g. file browsers). It should run on any Linux box.
Simply start pdftitle, and a file chooser dialog will be presented. Start it with a PDF file as argument, and this PDF will be modified. Most errors will be reported in a graphical manner in addition to the console output.
Pdftitle is implemented as bash script and uses various software to perform its task. Here is a list of software which must be installed:
In addition, some commands are used which are normally installed on a linux system, e.g. 'grep' and 'file'.