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.
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).
Changing a PDF author programmatically