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PDF Info Scrub
Clears author, title, creation/mod dates, keywords, and creator software identifiers from document dictionary.
XML XMP Purging
Strips nested XML packet streams that contain granular corporate signatures and revision metadata.
Secure Offline Sandbox
Processes all PDF document content locally in your web browser. No document content ever contacts our networks.
How It Works
Four simple steps to sanitize your PDF files
Drop or Select PDFs
Drag & drop your PDF documents — or click to browse. Multiple PDF files supported.
Inspect PDF Metadata
Click any PDF to instantly see all embedded metadata: author names, creator details, and export dates.
Remove in One Click
Select PDFs and click "Clean Selected" or process individually. All done locally — zero uploads.
Download Clean PDFs
Download individually or bulk-download all cleaned PDF files as a ZIP archive instantly.
100% Private
Zero data sent to servers
Works Offline
After initial page load
No Account
No sign-up required
Instant Processing
Millisecond-speed cleaning
Any Device
Desktop, tablet & mobile
Open Standards
Standard web APIs only
PDF Metadata Removal FAQs
Answers to common questions about PDF document security, hidden properties, and XMP.
What is PDF metadata?
PDF metadata is hidden property information stored inside a PDF document. It typically includes the document title, the author’s name (often pulled from the computer profile), the creation and modification timestamps, the software application used to build the PDF (e.g. Word, Adobe, Canva), and even corporate organization properties.
Can a PDF contain EXIF data?
Yes, indirect EXIF data. While standard PDF formats do not hold camera EXIF parameters directly, a PDF document that contains embedded photos (like scans, smartphone images, or real estate listings) will retain the original EXIF and GPS location geotags inside those images, unless they are cleared first.
Are my PDF files safe on this website?
Absolutely. The PDF metadata scrubbing is performed 100% locally in your web browser. Your documents are never uploaded to any remote servers, ensuring complete confidentiality for private business, legal, academic, or personal documents. Your files never leave your device.
Does removing metadata modify the visual text or pages in the PDF?
No. The visual layout, text, pagination, images, and formatting of your document remain completely unchanged. The tool surgically targets only the XML-based XMP packets and document info dictionaries (Info dict) in the PDF’s binary layout and clears them.
Does this tool support bulk PDF metadata removal?
Yes! You can drag and drop multiple PDF files at once, inspect their properties, clean them in a single batch click, and download the cleaned documents packaged as a ZIP archive.
What metadata fields does this tool remove from a PDF?
The tool removes all standard document info dictionary fields — including Title, Author, Subject, Keywords, Creator, Producer, CreationDate, and ModDate — as well as embedded XMP metadata packets, which can contain more granular fields such as corporate organization names, software version strings, and revision history properties.
Can I remove metadata from a password-protected or encrypted PDF?
Encrypted or password-protected PDFs cannot be cleaned until they are unlocked, because the metadata is part of the protected binary structure. You will need to remove the password protection first using a PDF tool, then run the file through our cleaner to strip the remaining document properties.
Does the tool work on scanned PDFs?
Yes. Scanned PDFs (image-based PDFs) are fully supported. The tool clears all document-level metadata properties. If the scanned pages contain embedded photos carrying EXIF or GPS data, those image-level tags will also be stripped during processing.