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diff --git a/python/python3-mat2/README b/python/python3-mat2/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ddc53c7093 --- /dev/null +++ b/python/python3-mat2/README @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Metadata and privacy + +Metadata consist of information that characterizes data. Metadata are +used to provide documentation for data products. In essence, metadata +answer who, what, when, where, why, and how about every facet of the +data that are being documented. Metadata within a file can tell a lot +about you. Cameras record data about when a picture was taken and what +camera was used. Office documents like PDF or Office automatically +adds author and company information to documents and spreadsheets. +Maybe you don't want to disclose those information. + +This is precisely the job of mat2: getting rid, as much as possible, +of metadata. + +mat2 provides: + +a library called libmat2; +a command line tool called mat2, +a service menu for Dolphin, KDE's default file manager + +If you prefer a regular graphical user interface, you might be +interested in Metadata Cleaner +(https://metadatacleaner.romainvigier.fr/ , not on SBo), which is +using mat2 under the hood. + |