Check creation and modification date

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What it does

Checks the creation and modification date.

You can indicate which metadata location should be checked, for example only the most recently changed one, or "any" metadata location (if it doesn't matter), ...

About metadata locations in a PDF file

There are two metadata locations in a PDF file:
  • The info dictionary contains information about the file, such as the title, the author, the creation date ... and is visible through the file's Document properties. It's not in XML format.
  • The XMP metadata stream also contains information about the file, but this information is represented as XMP metadata - XMP referring to Adobe's labeling technology Extensible Metadata Platform. All information in the info dictionary is also represented in the XMP metadata stream dictionary, in the form of XMP properties.

Inconsistencies may occur when only one of the metadata locations has been updated.

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