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PDF Metadata Editor

Every PDF carries document properties — a title, an author, the software that made it. This tool shows you what is in yours and lets you rewrite or clear any of it.

PDF Metadata Editor tool

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How to use the PDF Metadata Editor

  1. Add a PDF

    Drop one PDF onto the upload area. Its current metadata is read and shown in the form straight away.

  2. Edit the fields

    Change whatever you want. Leaving a field empty clears that property from the document.

  3. Save and download

    Press Save Metadata and download the updated PDF.

Where your files are processed

Your files are processed locally in your browser and are not uploaded to our servers.

The PDF Metadata Editor runs as JavaScript on the page you are reading. When you choose a file, the browser hands it to that code directly — it is never put into a network request, so there is no upload to cancel, no copy sitting in a queue somewhere, and nothing for us to delete afterwards. We could not see your file if we wanted to.

You can verify this rather than take our word for it: open your browser’s developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and run the tool. You will see no request carrying your file. Better still, once the page has loaded you can disconnect from the internet entirely and the PDF Metadata Editor will keep working — which it could not do if it depended on a server.

To be exact about what doesleave the page: like the rest of this site, it loads analytics, which record that a tool was opened and whether it succeeded. Those events carry the tool’s name and a duration — never a file, a file name, or anything read out of your file. The tool panel above is also excluded from session recording, so nothing shown inside it is captured either.

Frequently asked questions

Typically a title, author, subject, keywords, and the names of the applications that created and produced the file. Depending on how the PDF was made, the author field can carry a real name or a computer account name that you may not want to share.

It clears the standard document-information fields, which is what most readers display under document properties. It does not guarantee the removal of every trace — some PDFs also carry an XMP metadata stream or details embedded by specific software. For sensitive documents, verify the result with a dedicated inspection tool.

No. Only the document-information entries are rewritten. The pages themselves are untouched, so the file looks and prints exactly as before.

Most PDF libraries stamp their own name into Producer whenever they save a file. This tool deliberately disables that behaviour, so the exported document contains exactly the values you typed and nothing else.

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Credits

The file-processing behind this tool is adapted from DoxDock by Mithun Srinivas, used under the MIT Licence. Rebuilt here in TypeScript for this site.

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