🧹 PDF300
Strip the hidden details out of a PDF
A PDF quietly carries who made it, on what program, and when it was last touched. That is more than you meant to send with a resume or a bid.
Open the toolRuns on our server — the file is uploaded, processed and sent back.
How it works
- Add the PDFThe file is sent to the server to be cleaned.
- Clear the detailsAuthor, producer, creation and edit dates go.
- DownloadSave the cleaned copy.
Questions
Yes — this one runs on a server, so the file is sent over the network and processed there. If you would rather nothing left your device, use the browser tools on the main page instead.
Neither. No account, no watermark on the output. The practical limit is your device memory — large scanned files use more of it.
Guide: stripping metadata well
When you'd use this
Every PDF carries a layer of information beyond what is printed on the page: who created it, what software made it, when it was first saved and last modified, and sometimes a title or author left over from a template. For a resume, a bid document, or anything sent to someone outside your own organisation, that layer can reveal more than intended — the real name behind an anonymous submission, the company whose licensed software produced the file, or a much older creation date than the document's content suggests.
What gets cleared
This removes the title, author, producer and creator fields — the core descriptive metadata most PDF viewers display under "Document Properties" or similar. The visible content of the pages is completely untouched; this only clears information about the file, not information printed on it.
Why this needs a server
Metadata lives in the PDF's internal structure in a handful of different places depending on how the file was produced — some programs write it in the standard Info dictionary, others also duplicate it into an embedded XMP data block. Reliably clearing all of it, especially from files produced by less common software, benefits from a full PDF processing library running on the server rather than a lighter browser-side script.
What this does not clear
This is about file-level metadata, not content. If a document's pages themselves contain information that should not go out — a name printed in a header, a line of sensitive text — metadata removal will not touch it; use Redact for anything visible on the page itself.
More questions
Yes — the author field is cleared along with the others, so no name remains unless you deliberately add one back with Edit metadata.
No — only metadata is removed. Every visible page, image and line of text stays exactly as it was.
Use Edit PDF metadata for that — it lets you type in a new title, author, subject or keywords rather than just clearing the old ones.
PDF metadata does not typically carry location data the way photo files do — that concern applies more to image files than to PDFs, which carry document-authoring information instead.