Remove PDF Metadata
Processing entirely on your device — large files may take a moment.
PDFs quietly record who made them and when: author fields, software signatures, creation/modification timestamps, sometimes email addresses and file paths in XMP blocks. This tool rebuilds the document page-by-page into a fresh file that simply never contained any of it.
This is a rebuild, not a field edit — text, fonts, images, links and form fields are copied exactly, while everything outside the pages is simply not carried over.
How to remove PDF metadata
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Select your files
Drag & drop your PDF files onto the area above, or click to browse. You can add multiple files at once for batch conversion.
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Convert instantly
Click "Convert to PDF". The conversion runs entirely inside your browser using WebAssembly — no upload, no queue, no waiting.
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Download results
Download each converted PDF file individually, or grab everything at once as a ZIP archive.
About the PDF format
PDF (Adobe, 1993; ISO 32000 since 2008) exists for one promise: the document looks identical everywhere, forever. Fonts get embedded, layout is fixed to the point, and a contract printed from a 2003 file renders the same as one created this morning. That fixed-layout guarantee made it the standard for invoices, manuals, forms, e-books and anything with legal or financial weight.
The same design is what makes PDFs stubborn. They are meant to be presented, not edited — text lives in positioning operators rather than paragraphs, so extraction and re-flow are approximations. Scanned PDFs are worse: pure images with no text layer at all until OCR enters the picture. Still, no other format comes close for final-form document delivery.
+Strengths
- ✓Pixel-identical rendering on every device and printer
- ✓Fonts, images and color profiles travel inside the file
- ✓Mature ecosystem: forms, signatures, annotations, encryption
!Limitations
- −Hard to edit by design — even small changes need tooling
- −Text extraction is an approximation, not a conversion
- −Scanned PDFs are images without OCR
Frequently asked questions
What exactly gets removed?
The Info dictionary (title, author, subject, keywords, dates, producer/creator), the XMP metadata stream, and any custom private application data. Page content is untouched.
Will my bookmarks and links survive?
Link annotations on pages are copied with the pages; the document outline (bookmarks panel) is document-level data and is not carried over.
Can I set new metadata afterwards?
Yes — run the metadata editor on the cleaned file to stamp exactly the fields you want.