Remove metadata from PDF

This tool targets the metadata a PDF carries about itself. It removes every entry of the document information dictionary, the fields PDF readers show under File Properties or Document Properties: Title, Author, Subject, Keywords, Creator, Producer, the creation and modification dates, and any custom fields such as Company. Those are the fields most likely to carry your name, your organization, internal project labels, or timestamps you did not mean to publish.

It also removes the XMP metadata block. Many PDFs, especially those exported from Word, InDesign or Acrobat, keep a second copy of the author, title and software in XMP, and a tool that clears only the properties panel leaves that copy in the file for anyone who looks. Application-private data (PieceInfo) goes too. Everything else about the document, including its pages, text, and layout, is left untouched, so the output opens and prints identically to the original.

Only metadata changes, so the clean is quick; afterwards, every field in your reader's properties panel should be empty.

Document metadata is only one place information hides in a PDF. This tool does not scrub data embedded inside images, content streams, attachments, form-field defaults, layer names, or any revision history left behind by earlier edits. A scanned page can still carry camera or scanner details in its embedded image, and that data survives this operation untouched.

For that reason, treat the output as cleaned, not anonymized. If you are sharing something genuinely sensitive, such as a leaked-source-risk document or anything tied to a legal or safety matter, do not rely on a metadata strip alone. Review the file manually, consider flattening or re-exporting it, and when the stakes are high consult a specialist who handles document sanitization properly.

One hard limit: encrypted or password-protected PDFs cannot be processed. The file has to be readable for the tool to load and rewrite its properties. If your PDF is protected, remove the password in your PDF reader first, then run it through here.

The workflow is deliberately plain. Drop or choose a single PDF, confirm the page count shown after it loads, then press Remove Metadata. There are no sliders or text fields to set, because the cleared fields are fixed, so there is nothing to misconfigure. When it finishes you download a new PDF with a "-remove-pdf-metadata" suffix; your original file on disk is never altered.

All of this happens inside your browser. The PDF is read into memory, its properties are rewritten locally, and the new file is handed back to you as a download. Nothing is uploaded to a server, which matters here more than on most tools, since the whole point is keeping identifying information off a file before it travels.

A practical tip: keep your original. Once metadata is cleared it is gone from the copy you share, and there is no companion tool to put the author or title back. If you might need those details later, archive the untouched source file before running the clean, and verify the result in your reader's properties panel before you send it on.