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Metadata Class

Represents the metadata of a document or an object in a document.

For document level metadata, all changes are reflected in both, XMP metadata and document info dictionary depending on the conformance of the document.

Inheritance Hierarchy
SystemObject
  PdfTools.InternalNativeBase
    PdfTools.InternalNativeObject
      PdfTools.PdfMetadata

Namespace: PdfTools.Pdf
Assembly: PdfTools (in PdfTools.dll) Version: 1.5.0+84bd4d36da7e2449ee09fddee89e23a99b6ffcca
Syntax
C#
public class Metadata : NativeObject

The Metadata type exposes the following members.

Properties
 NameDescription
Public propertyAuthor

The name of the person who created the document or resource.

This property corresponds to the "dc:creator" entry in the XMP metadata and to the "Author" entry in the document information dictionary.
Public propertyCreationDate

The date and time the document or resource was originally created.

This property corresponds to the "xmp:CreateDate" entry in the XMP metadata and to the "CreationDate" entry in the document information dictionary.
Public propertyCreator

The original application that created the document.

The name of the first known tool used to create the document or resource.

This property corresponds to the "xmp:CreatorTool" entry in the XMP metadata and to the "Creator" entry in the document information dictionary.

Public propertyKeywords

Keywords associated with the document or resource.

Keywords can be separated by:

  • carriage return / line feed
  • comma
  • semicolon
  • tab
  • double space

This property corresponds to the "pdf:Keywords" entry in the XMP metadata and to the "Keywords" entry in the document information dictionary.

Public propertyModificationDate

The date and time the document or resource was most recently modified.

This property corresponds to the "xmp:ModifyDate" entry in the XMP metadata and to the "ModDate" entry in the document information dictionary.
Public propertyProducer

The application that created the PDF

If the document was converted to PDF from another format, the name of the PDF processor that converted it to PDF.

This property corresponds to the "pdf:Producer" entry in the XMP metadata and to the "Producer" entry in the document information dictionary.

Public propertySubject

The subject of the document or resource.

This property corresponds to the "dc:description" entry in the XMP metadata and to the "Subject" entry in the document information dictionary.
Public propertyTitle

The title of the document or resource.

This property corresponds to the "dc:title" entry in the XMP metadata and to the "Title" entry in the document information dictionary.
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Methods
 NameDescription
Public methodEquals
(Inherited from NativeObject)
Public methodGetHashCode
(Inherited from NativeObject)
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