Sanitize Tracking IDs - Free Online Browser Tool

Deep clean document identification tokens and hardware serial tags.

Beyond the visible properties, PDFs often carry hardware and system fingerprints — scanner serials, device identifiers, production tracking tokens. This tool goes further than a normal metadata clean and targets those identification strings specifically.

This sanitize tracking ids utility runs completely inside your web browser. Your document is opened locally and processed on your own device using JavaScript and WebAssembly, so your file is never uploaded to any server. There is no signup, no watermark and no limit on how many documents you can handle.

  • 100% client-side - files never leave your device
  • Instant processing, no upload wait
  • Works on desktop, tablet and mobile
  • Free forever, no account required

Common next steps: Remove / Clean Metadata, Strip Embedded Files, Edit PDF Metadata, View XMP / Raw Metadata.

How to Use the Sanitize Tracking IDs Tool

Four steps, and the whole thing runs locally on your own device.

  1. Load the PDF

    Drop in the document you need to sanitise before external release.

  2. Sanitize tracking identifiers

    Device and production identification tokens embedded in the file are stripped, along with the standard properties.

  3. Verify what was removed

    Run View Raw Metadata afterwards to confirm nothing identifying remains in the file.

  4. Save the sanitised document

    Download the file for external distribution.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is this different from Remove / Clean Metadata?

Metadata removal clears the standard properties. Sanitizing additionally targets embedded identification tokens, which survive a normal clean.

What kinds of identifiers are removed?

Device and hardware serial tags, production tracking identifiers and similar system fingerprints that scanners and document management software write into files.

Why does this matter for privacy?

Because those tokens can correlate documents from the same machine or workflow, which is meaningful information even without a name attached.

Does sanitizing damage the document?

No. Page content, form fields, annotations and structure are all preserved; only identification strings are removed.

What should I combine this with for external release?

Metadata removal, this tool, and a check with Extract Text to confirm no personal data remains in the visible content itself.