Remove metadata from a PDF

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Processed on this device. Nothing is uploaded.

Short answer

Open a PDF and every metadata field it carries is listed — title, author, subject, keywords, and the software that made it. Download a copy with all of them cleared. It happens in your browser, so the document you are anonymising is not sent anywhere.

Next step

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Doing more than one thing?

The full editor puts every operation in one workspace with undo, so you are not exporting and re-opening between each step. Same engine, same privacy, still nothing uploaded.

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Why this one does not upload your file

Almost every free remove metadata from a pdf tool works by sending your document to a server, doing the work there, and sending a result back. That is a cost decision rather than a privacy one — server time costs money, which is why those tools meter you, ask for an account, or cap your file size.

This one runs the same work in your browser using JavaScript, so your file never travels anywhere. There is no upload step, no queue, no account, and no page limit — and the page keeps working if you disconnect from the internet partway through.

You do not have to take that on trust. Open your browser's network tab and watch while you work, or read how it works.

What happens to your file

It is read from your disk into this tab's memory
Every change happens on your own processor
The result is built in memory, reopened and checked before you are offered it
Your original file is never modified
Closing the tab releases everything — nothing is stored

Questions

Straight answers

What gets recorded in a PDF without me knowing?

Usually your name, your organisation, the program that made the file and the original filename. A word processor writes those automatically on export. They then travel with the document to whoever you send it to.

Does this remove everything hidden?

No, and it does not claim to. It clears the document information fields. Attachments, annotations, optional layers and earlier revisions are separate things — use Inspect to see whether the file carries any of those.

Will the document look different?

Not at all. Metadata is not printed on any page; removing it changes nothing you can see.

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