from pypdf import PdfReader, PdfWriter # Load the existing PDF reader = PdfReader(r"u:\Dropbox\!!!Days\Downloads Z230\output11.pdf") writer = PdfWriter() # Copy all pages to the writer for page in reader.pages: writer.add_page(page) #Get metadata metadata = reader.metadata author = metadata.get("/Author","") author=author+', YourName' print(author) # Set metadata writer.add_metadata({"/Author": ""}) writer.add_metadata({"/Author": author}) # Save the updated PDF with open(r"u:\Dropbox\!!!Days\Downloads Z230\output11.pdf", "wb") as f: writer.write(f)