View and remove PDF metadata
Who is named in the document - and how to get them out.
Stays on your device – The properties are read and changed in your browser. Your PDF is not uploaded.
Drop your files here
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You can also paste with Ctrl+V.
Edit the properties
In both cases an existing XMP packet is removed. It holds the same values a second time, and some programs show it in preference. On a PDF/A document this removes the marker that declares it PDF/A.
Results
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How to do it
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Pick your PDF
Drop the file in or choose it. Several at once is fine.
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Look at the properties
One table per file, with both sources side by side.
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Remove or change
"Remove the metadata" empties everything. With a single file you can edit the values instead.
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Download
Several files come back as a ZIP.
What this is for
An offer written in Word carries the Windows user name of whoever wrote it. Often the path it was saved under as well. Whoever sends that document out sends both along - and does not see it, because nothing of it appears in the document itself.
And it is in there twice. This is the part most tools get wrong. A PDF says who wrote it in two places: in the classic document info and in an XMP packet, an embedded XML document holding the same values under different names. Clear only one of them and it looks finished - the name is still in the file, and Adobe's own programs show the second one in preference.
So both are shown side by side here. Where the two disagree, the row is marked. Removing takes out both.
The content is left alone: text, pictures, page count, structure. Only the statements about the document are changed.
Common questions
No. Reading and writing both happen in your browser. For a tool whose entire purpose is keeping a name in the building, anything else would be absurd.
Title, author, subject, keywords, the program the text was written in, the program that turned it into a PDF, and the creation and modification dates. In a Word export the author is typically the Windows user name - so often the real name.
Because a PDF has two places for the same statement: the document info and the XMP packet. They do not have to agree, and different programs show different ones. Seeing them next to each other is the quickest way to understand why "author deleted" sometimes achieves nothing.
Because it holds more than the eight values above: editing histories, document identifiers, program-specific blocks. Any one of them can hide a name or a path. Editing it would mean deciding what of the rest may stay - removing it is the answer this tool exists to give.
No. The marker that declares a file PDF/A lives in the XMP packet and goes with it. The content stays fully readable, but for an archive that requires PDF/A the file no longer qualifies. The tool says so above the button, not only here.
Clearing yes, for any number. Editing only one at a time: with five documents open, one title field cannot mean five different titles, and a form that silently writes the same title into all of them would be worse than none.
No. The library doing the work here writes itself in as the producer by default and resets the modification date - that is switched off, in this tool and in every other PDF tool here. A tool for removing traces that leaves one of its own would be an odd thing.
Any change to the file invalidates the signature - that goes for metadata as much as anything else. The tool spots a signature and tells you before you change anything.
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