Remove / Clean Metadata - Free Online Browser Tool

Wipe away author history, printer signatures, and metadata for privacy.

Every PDF carries a record of how it was made: the authoring application, the printer driver, internal project names and the author’s name. This tool strips all of it, which matters before a document goes to someone outside your organisation.

This remove / clean 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: View XMP / Raw Metadata, Extract Metadata, Edit PDF Metadata.

How to Use the Remove / Clean Metadata Tool

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

  1. Load the PDF

    Drop in the document you intend to share.

  2. Remove all identifying metadata

    The information dictionary, producer and creator strings are cleared.

  3. Review what has been removed

    Check what was present before saving, so you know whether anything else needs cleaning too.

  4. Save the cleaned document

    Download the file with a genuinely blank properties set.

Frequently Asked Questions

What exactly gets removed?

Title, author, subject, keywords, creator, producer and timestamps — the standard document information dictionary.

Does this remove visible content?

No. Page content, text and images are completely untouched. Only the invisible properties are cleared.

Is metadata cleaning enough before sharing a document?

It handles the most common disclosure, but consider running Sanitize Tracking IDs as well, which reaches further into embedded identification tokens.

Will the file still open correctly?

Yes. A PDF is perfectly valid without an information dictionary, and readers treat a missing title as an unnamed document rather than an error.

Does this shrink the file?

Very slightly, since the metadata strings are removed. The pages themselves are unchanged.