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Purge metadata, convert PDF to rendered graphics (including bitmaps), add OCR layer.
There are tools for this already.. but it sure would be nice to have a Firefox plugin that scrubs all metadata on downloads by default.
(Note I'm hoping this exists and someone will Um, Actually me)
I feel like why not just print to pdf from your pdf viewer?
You could write a script to automatically watch for new files in a folder and strip metadata from every file i guess. I had done something like that for images way before.