You can change the name of the author manually through the properties box, but this is time consuming and difficult.
Posted on LinkedIn on Mar 19, 2015 by Paul Tredoux
I have created a small ChangeAuthor example that changes the author from "iText" to "Bruno Lowagie" using iText in Java.
It takes a PDF with annotations created by "iText" and turns it into a PDF with annotations created by "Bruno Lowagie".
The code is really simple: we loop over the annotations of a page and we change the T entry (if present and if equal to "iText"). We use PdfStamper to persist the changed PDF.
public void manipulatePdf(String src, String dest)
throws IOException, DocumentException {
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(src);
PdfDictionary pageDict = reader.getPageN(1);
PdfArray annots = pageDict.getAsArray(PdfName.ANNOTS);
if (annots != null) {
PdfDictionary annot;
for (int i = 0; i