Before sending a CV
Check whether your file carries the name of the account on your machine, or the name of a previous employer in the Title.
See what your PDF reveals
and export it clean
Author, title, dates and the software that made the file travel inside every PDF. Here you read them without uploading anything — and download a copy carrying none of it.
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The field nobody fills in and everybody sends
A PDF exported from Word usually carries, in the Author field, the user name of the computer that made it. Nobody typed it there. It travels with the CV, the proposal, the anonymous complaint and the court filing — and the person sending it has no way of knowing without opening the file’s properties.
Documents reused from a template
A proposal built from another client’s file often keeps their name in the metadata.
Material that should not be dated
Creation and modification timestamps say when the document was written, down to the second.
How to check and remove the metadata of a PDF
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Open the document
Drop the PDF anywhere on this page, or use the button. Nothing is uploaded — it is read here.
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Read what is there
The metadata panel lists every field the file declares: author, title, subject, keywords, software and dates.
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Export a clean copy
With removal switched on — which is the default — the exported file carries no metadata at all.
What this tool does differently
It shows before it removes
Other tools strip the fields and tell you it worked. Here you read what was in your file first, which is the part that actually tells you something.
Reading needs no upload
Checking a document’s metadata on a server means handing over the document. Here it is parsed in the tab, and you can confirm it in the network panel.
Not even our own trace
The exported file gets no author, no dates and no producer — not even the name of the library that assembled it. Most tools leave their own signature behind.
Clean by default, everywhere
Every export from this site comes out without metadata, from every tool. This page is where you see it and can choose otherwise.
You can keep it, too
Turn removal off and the title, author and subject of the original are copied into the exported file — useful when merging and the title matters.
No account
No sign-up, no email, no daily limit tied to a login.
Why reading it here is the point
A metadata inspector that runs on a server asks you to upload the very document whose privacy you are worried about. That is the contradiction this tool exists to avoid.
Local processing
The PDF structure is parsed in JavaScript, inside the tab. The fields you see were read from your copy of the file.
No storage
There is no server keeping a copy, because there is no upload. Close the tab and everything leaves memory.
Verifiable
Open the network panel before opening the document. No request carries the file.
Frequently asked questions
What exactly is removed?
The document information fields: title, author, subject, keywords, the software that created and produced the file, and the creation and modification dates. In the exported file these do not come out empty — the information dictionary is not written at all.
What is not removed?
Anything that is part of the page content. Visible text, images and annotations stay as they are — this tool does not redact a document. It also does not reach metadata stored inside an image embedded in a page: a photo with EXIF data keeps it. For photo metadata, that belongs to an image tool, not a PDF one.
Do I have to use this page to get a clean file?
No. Every export from this site already comes out without metadata, from any of the tools. This page exists so you can see what the original carried and decide — including deciding to keep the fields.
Why does my PDF say the author is someone I do not know?
Most likely the document was built from a template or a file someone else made, and the field came along. It is also common for the Author to hold the operating system user name of whoever exported it, which is often a full name.
Does removing metadata change the appearance of the document?
Not at all. Pages, text, images, order and rotation stay exactly as they were. Metadata lives outside the page content.
Can I check the metadata without downloading anything?
Yes. Open the document and read the panel. If all you wanted was to know what was in there, close the tab — nothing was sent and nothing was saved.
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