All essentials

Drop a folder in, or choose one. Every PDF inside it gets stripped.

Free tool

Bulk Metadata Remover

Remove metadata from every PDF in a folder at once — title, author, subject, keywords, creator, producer, timestamps and the embedded XMP packet. Sub-folders are included, the structure is preserved, and the files never leave your browser.

Drop a folder here

Sub-folders included · PDFs only · nothing leaves your browser

Good to know

  • Drop a folder or choose one; sub-folders are walked and anything that is not a PDF is ignored.
  • Each file is listed with what it was carrying as it is cleared, so you have a record of what went.
  • A file that cannot be read — usually password-protected — is reported and skipped, not allowed to stop the batch.

Your files stay on your machine

This tool runs entirely inside your browser tab. Nothing is uploaded, stored, or sent to a server — close the tab and every trace is gone.

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How big a file can it take?

There is no upload, so there is no upload limit — but the work happens in this tab, which means your browser’s memory is the budget. Nothing here will refuse a file for being large; a big enough one simply gets slow and, eventually, reloads the tab. The figures below are rules of thumb on a desktop browser, not enforced caps. On a phone or tablet, expect a good deal less.

  • Files are processed one at a time and only the current one is parsed, so the folder can be long — hundreds of files is fine.
  • Every cleaned file is held in memory until you download the ZIP, so it is the combined size that binds: comfortable to roughly 300 MB across the folder. Save individually for very large productions.

Password-protected PDFs are declined whatever their size — unlock the file first. If a run does die on a long document, splitting it into volumes and working through them one at a time is the reliable way round it.

Built on open source

The Essentials tools do their work in your browser using these open-source libraries, used under the licenses below. Each remains the copyright of its authors.

  • pdf-libMIT · creates and edits the PDFs you download
  • pdf.jsApache-2.0 · reads your PDF and renders the page previews
  • SheetJS (xlsx)Apache-2.0 · reads Excel workbooks — .xlsx, .xls, .xlsb and .ods
  • hyparquetMIT · reads Apache Parquet files
  • hyparquet-compressorsMIT · the Parquet codecs beyond Snappy — Gzip, Zstd, Brotli, LZ4
  • JSZipMIT · bundles multi-file results into one ZIP
  • LucideISC · the icons throughout these tools
  • ReactMIT · the interface itself
  • Next.jsMIT · builds and serves these pages

pdf.js ships fallback fonts contributed by Foxit Software, redistributed here as part of pdf.js. JSZip is dual-licensed; it is used here under the MIT license.