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PDF Clean (PDF清理工具)

Remove metadata, annotations, bookmarks, and form fields from PDF files

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Quick start

Call this tool from your code in three languages.

cURL

# 1) Upload each file first → returns { filePath }
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/upload/pdf-clean' \
  -F 'file=@/path/to/sourceFile.ext'

# 2) Call the tool with the returned filePath values
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/pdf-clean' \
  -F 'sourceFile=/public/samples/pdf/sample.pdf' \
  -F 'removeMetadata=true' \
  -F 'removeAnnotations=true' \
  -F 'removeBookmarks=false' \
  -F 'removeFormFields=false'

API reference

Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.

Endpoint

HTTP

POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/pdf-clean

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
sourceFile	fileupload required	Yes	—
removeMetadata	checkbox	No	Remove title, author, creation dates, and other document properties
removeAnnotations	checkbox	No	Remove comments, highlights, and other page annotations
removeBookmarks	checkbox	No	Remove document outline, bookmarks, and named destinations
removeFormFields

MCP integration

Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.

Server configuration

Add this block to your MCP client configuration:

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elysiatools-pdf-clean": {
      "name": "pdf-clean",
      "description": "Remove metadata, annotations, bookmarks, and form fields from PDF files",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=pdf-clean",
      "command": "",
      "args": [],
      "env": {},
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "sse"
    }
  }
}

List available tools

After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:

tools/list

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/list"
}

Call this tool

Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:

tools/call

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "pdf-clean",
    "arguments": {
  "sourceFile": "/public/samples/pdf/sample.pdf",
  "removeMetadata": true,
  "removeAnnotations": true,
  "removeBookmarks": false,
  "removeFormFields": false
}
  }
}

Chain multiple tools in one session with a comma-separated toolId list, e.g. /mcp/sse?toolId=png-to-webp,jpg-to-webp,gif-to-webp (max 20).

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