Bulk Edit PDF Metadata - Free Online Browser Tool

Set the title, author, subject or keywords on many PDFs at once. Files stay on your device.

Export a folder of documents and they all carry the same title, the author who happened to be logged in, and whatever that day's date was. Fixing that one file at a time is the kind of job that gets skipped. This tool takes the whole folder: add as many PDFs as you like, type the title and author once, and every file comes back with them set. Leave a field blank and each document keeps what it already had, so you can change one thing across a folder without flattening everything else into the same value. There is a second reason to run a batch like this. The producer and creator fields of an exported PDF often name the machine and the account that made it, which is more than a stranger needs to know about your setup; this will reset both across a whole folder in one pass. The modification date can be stamped to now, which is what you want when a set of files should read as one delivery rather than as a month of edits. Every document is written separately and one comes back per file that went in, with a report listing what changed - and naming any file that could not be read, so one broken PDF does not quietly take the other nine with it. All of it happens on your own device.

This bulk edit pdf metadata 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: Edit PDF Metadata, Remove / Clean Metadata, Sanitize Tracking IDs, Copy Metadata Across Files.

How to Use the Bulk Edit PDF Metadata Tool

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

  1. Add the whole folder

    Select as many PDFs as you need. They are processed one at a time, so a large set does not lock the tab.

  2. Fill in only what should change

    Title, author, subject or keywords. Anything left blank is left alone on every file, so you can change one thing without flattening the rest.

  3. Tidy the producer fields

    Resetting producer and creator is how a folder stops advertising which machine and which account exported it. Stamping the date to now makes a set read as one delivery.

  4. Download

    One PDF per file that went in, plus a report saying what was set and which file failed, if any.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will this overwrite fields I did not fill in?

No. Every field is only written when you type something in it, so a document keeps its existing subject and keywords while its title changes. That is the difference between this and a tool that stamps one set of details on a whole folder.

Why reset the producer and creator?

Because an exported PDF often records the machine and the account that made it. Anyone who opens the file can read those. Resetting them costs the document nothing it needs and tells a stranger less.

What happens to a file that will not open?

It is named in the report as failed, with the reason, and the rest of the folder is still processed. One damaged PDF in a folder of forty should not cost you the other thirty-nine.

Does this change the pages or the text?

No. Only the file properties change - the pages, the text and the images are untouched, and the document stays a normal PDF that opens anywhere.

Why does a screen reader benefit from this?

Because the title in the file properties is what many of them announce when a document opens, and what a list of open tabs shows. A folder of files all called "Document1" is unusable with a screen reader in a way that is not obvious until you try it.