Do we want to provide a less-safe-but-also-less-destructive mode?

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I'm definitely in favour of this less-safe-but-also-less-destructive mode.

PDFs are used and published a lot. And in many cases, converting them to PNGs makes them less usable (no text flow, no hyperlinks, ...).

In my eyes it's better to strip the obvious metadata (and make clear that there might be more) than to not strip anything.

I'm with @doobry here, but the warning should strike.

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The less-safe-but-also-less-destructive mode is implemented in 96299c6a

jvoisin@grimhilde 21:27 ~/dev/mat2 python3 main.py
usage: main.py [-h] [-c] [-l] [-s] [-L] [files [files ...]]

Metadata anonymisation toolkit 2

positional arguments:
  files

optional arguments:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit

Information:
  -c, --check        check if a file is free of harmful metadatas
  -l, --list         list all supported fileformats
  -s, --show         list all the harmful metadata of a file without removing them
  -L, --lightweight  remove SOME metadata

It's not completely implemented for PDF, so I'm tracking this in #18 (closed)

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Perfect, thanks a ton!

I didn't try it out yet, but probably it does the same as old mat - which means re-rendering the PDF pages for printing and taking the output, right?

This means that hyperlinks are still lost, right? Because I still think that keeping hyperlinks would be a nice feature. But definitely not high priority.

Yup, it's the same technique, sorry for the links :/

Do we want to provide a less-safe-but-also-less-destructive mode?

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