PDF Metadata Remover
Strip title, author, and other metadata fields from a PDF.
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Clears the title, author, subject, keywords, creator, and producer fields from the PDF's document info.
What is PDF metadata?
PDF metadata is information stored with a PDF document that describes the file. Depending on how a PDF was created, this can include properties such as the document title, author, subject, keywords, creator, and other document information.
A PDF metadata remover can help clean these document properties before you share or publish a PDF.
How to remove PDF metadata online
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Upload your PDF
Choose the PDF file whose document metadata you want to remove. The file is processed directly in your browser.
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Remove the PDF metadata
Start the tool to clear the supported document-information fields from your PDF.
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Review the cleaned PDF
Check the resulting document and make sure the metadata removal process has completed successfully.
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Download the PDF
Download the processed PDF with the supported document metadata fields removed.
Why remove metadata from a PDF?
PDF metadata can contain information that is not visible when reading the document. Cleaning document properties can be useful before sharing a file with clients, colleagues, websites, or other recipients.
- Remove an old author or document title.
- Clean document properties before publishing a PDF.
- Remove unnecessary keywords or subject information.
- Prepare a cleaner copy of a PDF for sharing.
What information can PDF metadata contain?
PDF documents can contain properties such as title, author, subject, keywords, creator, and producer information. The exact metadata available depends on how the PDF was generated or edited.
Removing document metadata is different from editing the visible text, images, or pages inside the PDF.
PDF metadata vs. metadata inside images
A PDF can have its own document metadata, while an image contained inside that PDF can have separate metadata. Removing the PDF's document properties does not automatically remove EXIF or other metadata stored inside embedded images.
If you need to clean metadata from individual image files, use an image metadata remover before adding those images to a PDF.
Remove PDF metadata privately in your browser
The PDF metadata removal process runs directly in your browser. Your PDF does not need to be uploaded to a remote server for the tool to process it.
Browser-based processing can be useful when working with documents that you prefer to keep on your own device.
Removing metadata is not a complete privacy guarantee
Metadata removal should not be treated as a guarantee that a PDF contains no identifying information. Visible content, embedded images, document structure, links, annotations, or other properties can contain information that is separate from the document metadata fields removed by this tool.
Frequently asked questions
- Yes, completely free with no signup or usage limit.
- No. Metadata removal happens directly in your browser. Your PDF does not need to be uploaded to our servers.
- No — this clears the PDF's own document-info fields (title, author, etc.). Metadata embedded in images placed inside the PDF isn't touched; use the Image Metadata Remover for those separately.
- PDF metadata is information stored with a PDF document, such as its title, author, subject, keywords, creator, or other document properties.
- The tool removes supported PDF document-information fields, including information such as the title and author.
- Removing document metadata can help clean up PDFs before sharing them, especially when you do not want certain document properties included with the file.
- The tool is designed to remove supported document metadata fields rather than edit the visible content of the PDF.
- Yes. The tool runs directly in your web browser, so you do not need to install desktop PDF software.
- No. Removing PDF document metadata does not guarantee complete anonymity or remove every possible piece of information associated with a document.
- Metadata stored inside images embedded in a PDF is separate from the PDF's own document metadata. This tool does not remove metadata from those embedded images.