TDMRep (Text and Data Mining Reservation Protocol) metadata tells AI crawlers whether they are allowed to mine your PDF content. The batch processing feature allows you to set, check, or remove this metadata across multiple PDF files at once — useful when you need to apply the same policy to an entire collection of documents.
There are two ways to add files to the batch list:
Duplicate files are automatically prevented.
Click Check Status to read the current TDMRep metadata from every file in the list without modifying them. The Reservation and Policy URL columns will be populated with each file's current values:
This is useful for auditing a collection of PDFs to see which ones already have TDMRep metadata and what values are set.
Click Remove All to strip all TDMRep metadata from every file in the
list. This removes both tdm:reservation and tdm:policy
properties, as well as any TDMRep PDF/A extension schema blocks.
After removal, AI crawlers will see no TDM restriction on the files. The Reservation column will show "Removed" for each successfully processed file.
Configure the reservation and (optionally) the policy URL, then click Apply to All to begin processing. Each file is opened, the TDMRep metadata is written, and the file is saved. The progress bar and status text show the current state.
When processing is complete, a summary shows how many files succeeded and how many failed, along with any error messages.
The Policy URL field is optional — leave it blank if you don't have a policy file yet. The same URL will be written into every selected file when you click Apply to All.
Use the Check button next to the URL field to test that the URL is reachable before applying it to many files. The check is informational only; you can still apply the URL even if the check fails (for example, if the policy isn't deployed yet). See the User Guide → Policy URL section for the format of the JSON policy file the URL should point to.