Remove metadata from a PDF
Choose a PDF and its hidden details are removed on your device. The pages stay as they are, and nothing is uploaded.
Removes the title, author, subject, keywords, the program that made the file, its dates, its XMP metadata and its attached files.
Runs qpdf in your browser. Open-source licenses
How to remove metadata from a PDF
Choose your file, or drop it on the box above.
Select Remove metadata.
Save the new file and share it in place of the old one.
What is removed
The document's properties: its title, author, subject, keywords, the program that created it and the one that wrote it, and the dates it was made and last changed.
Its XMP metadata, a hidden block that often repeats those details and can hold more, such as editing history. Files attached to the document. And the file's ID is replaced with a new one, so it cannot be matched to the file it came from by that ID.
What stays, and what is not removed yet
The pages, text, images, links, bookmarks and form fields are kept as they are.
Not removed yet: scripts in the file, files attached to comments, and details stored inside single images or pages. Check the file before you rely on it if those matter to you.
Your file never leaves your device
The metadata is removed in your browser with qpdf, an open-source PDF library built to run on your device. No file, page or file name is sent to us or to anyone else. The tool itself loads only when you start, so the page stays fast.
How large can the file be?
It depends on your device's memory. If the file is too large for your device, the tool says so before it starts, rather than letting the browser close the tab.
A file protected with a password opens once you type its own password on this page, and the new file has no password. We never get around a file's protection.
Related tools
- Edit PDF metadata: Change a file's title, author, subject and keywords.
- Protect PDF: Lock a file with a password, encrypted on your device.
- Compress PDF: Make a file smaller, or at or under a size you type.
- Merge PDF: Join several files into one, in the order you choose.
- Split PDF: Save pages or ranges of a file as new files.