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1.TH MAT2 "1" "September 2018" "MAT2 0.3.1" "User Commands"
2
3.SH NAME
4mat2 \- the metadata anonymisation toolkit 2
5
6.SH SYNOPSIS
7mat2 [\-h] [\-v] [\-l] [\-c] [\-s | \-L]\fR [files [files ...]]
8
9.SH DESCRIPTION
10.B mat2
11removes metadata from various fileformats. It supports a wide variety of file
12formats, audio, office, images, …
13
14Careful, mat2 does not clean files in-place, instead, it will produce a file with the word
15"cleaned" between the filename and its extension, for example "filename.cleaned.png"
16for a file named "filename.png".
17
18.SH OPTIONS
19.SS "positional arguments:"
20.TP
21\fBfiles\fR
22the files to process
23.SS "optional arguments:"
24.TP
25\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
26show this help message and exit
27.TP
28\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
29show program's version number and exit
30.TP
31\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-list\fR
32list all supported fileformats
33.TP
34fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-check\-dependencies\fR
35check if MAT2 has all the dependencies it needs
36.TP
37\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-show\fR
38list harmful metadata detectable by MAT2 without
39removing them
40.TP
41\fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-lightweight\fR
42remove SOME metadata
43
44.SH EXAMPLES
45To remove all the metadata from a PDF file:
46.PP
47.nf
48.RS
49mat2 ./myfile.pdf
50.RE
51.fi
52.PP
53
54.SH BUGS
55
56While mat2 does its very best to remove every single metadata,
57it's still in beta, and \fBsome\fR might remain. Should you encounter
58some issues, check the bugtracker: https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2/issues
59.PP
60Please use accordingly and be careful.
61
62.SH AUTHOR
63This software was made by Julien (jvoisin) Voisin with the support of the Tails project.
64
65.SH COPYRIGHT
66This software is released on LGPLv3.
67
68.SH "SEE ALSO"
69.BR exiftool (1p)
70.BR pdf-redact-tools (1)