How to keep source file time, date, metadata.... etc for Target File?

[limopc]

Describe the bug
when I use ocrmypdf, the output file has a new date and time.
The created file has the current modification date and time.
I would like to keep it as the original.
To Reproduce
normal ocrmypdf command creates the new file with modification date now not the original of the source file.
Expected behavior
What did you expected to happen?

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System (please complete the following information):

• OS: EndeavourOS
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• OCRmyPDF version:

Installation
How did you install OCRmyPDF? Did you install it from your operating system's
package manager, or using pip?

Additional context
OcrMyPDF I assume is the latest as EOS is a rolling release. I just installed it August 4.
I will appreciate any help about keeping the modified date as source.

[jbarlow83]

ocrmypdf updates the modification timestamp inside the PDF, since the PDF specification states that a compliant PDF writer should update it when the PDF is modified. Your computer's filesystem also updates timestamps when a file is modified. This is all standard behavior, and doing anything else would violate norms and expectations that other users and applications rely on.

I understand you require or expect ocrmypdf to work differently. You could, for example by using a script that changes the modification time to that of the input file after ocrmypdf creates its output. You could also use pikepdf to edit the timestamp metadata inside the pdf.

[ferdiga]

Hi, I came along with the same issue.
It seems to me crucial to not loose this information.
A possible solution could be to optionally add the original timestamp to the file name using 2 parameters:

• prepend/append
• timestamp format

BTW - I have seen many organisations (including ours) to include a convenient date in the file name, exactly due to the fact, that many apps alter the saved timestamp and consequently it is impossible to simply sort and see the time sequence needed by the organisation.
We prepend YYYYMMDD to each file, usually the date when the file was created. especially useful for PDFs.

This would be compliant to the specs

BTW - I find ocrmypdf very usefull.

[ferdiga]

in respect to the discussion above "OCR Overwrites digitally signed files"
the date should always be appended to keep the filename similar to the original

[jbarlow83]

Third party software should implement its own renaming behavior and other such policies, and pass that to ocrmypdf as the desired output filename.