Remove PDF metadata

How it works

Every PDF carries a record of who made it and with what. Your name, your employer, the software you use, and the moment you last saved. None of it shows on the page, all of it travels with the file, and most people only find out when a journalist or an opposing lawyer reads it.

This tool shows you the list before it removes anything, because the surprising entries are usually the ones no viewer displays. Word writes a Company field. Scanners write device names. Anything an application invented appears here marked as an application field, alongside the standard ones.

It also removes the XMP packet, which is where most metadata removers leak. A PDF stores its details in two independent places: the document information dictionary, and an optional block of XML that usually repeats the same author and dates. Clear the first, leave the second, and the name is still in the file. We remove both, and we drop the underlying object rather than just unlinking it, so nothing is left stranded in the bytes.

Your file is read and rewritten on your device, and nothing is uploaded. We do not stamp our own name into the result either. A tool that strips your metadata and writes its own in the space it cleared has missed the point.