Drop a PDF and I'll show you what it carries before removing it.
PDF Metadata Remover
Remove a PDF's metadata — title, author, subject, keywords, creator, producer, timestamps and the embedded XMP packet. See exactly what is there first, or edit the fields instead of clearing them.
Good to know
- Removal clears the Info dictionary and the embedded XMP packet together.
- Timestamps go with it — nothing is re-stamped on the way out.
- Metadata is not content: text inside the pages is untouched.
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.
These are the free ones — see the full suiteHow 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.
- Only the page you are looking at is drawn, so page count barely matters here — file size is what binds, comfortable to roughly 200 MB.
- One document at a time. For a whole production, use the Bulk Metadata Remover, which takes a folder.
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.