See the document properties stored inside a PDF, edit them, or remove them before sharing. Fast, free, and built for simple browser-based workflows.
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Choose a PDF, then click Read Metadata.
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PDF Metadata Viewer is a free online tool that shows what a single PDF says about itself and lets you change it. It reads the document properties stored inside the file, from the title and author down to the dates and the software that produced it, and can write your own values back into a fresh copy.
The reason most people arrive is that second half. A PDF quietly carries the name of whoever made it, often the account name of the computer it was written on, and the program that produced it, and all of that travels with the file when you publish it on a website, send it to a client under your own firm's name, or attach it to a job application. Tick Remove all metadata, click Apply Changes, and the copy you download carries none of it. Reading answers the other kind of question: which program really produced this document, when was it last modified, does it claim an author at all.
The file is opened, edited and rebuilt by your own browser, so a contract whose author field you want gone never has to leave your machine in order to have it removed, which would rather defeat the point. Removing metadata deletes every stored property, from the title and author through the creator, producer and both dates, along with the hidden XMP copy that programs like Word and Acrobat keep of the same details; nothing printed on the visible page is touched, so a name in a letterhead stays in the letterhead. When it is page totals across a stack of files you need rather than one file's properties, the PDF Page Counter tool does that job, and PDF Compress is the one for a document that is simply too heavy. The library that reads and rewrites the file comes from a public CDN on first use, so this page needs a connection.
Click Choose PDF File and pick one document. The line underneath confirms the file name and size as soon as it is selected.
Click Read Metadata. The table fills with the title, author, subject and keywords, the creator and producer, the creation and modification dates, the page size, the PDF version and whether the document is encrypted.
The Title, Author, Subject and Keywords boxes arrive pre-filled with whatever the file already holds, so type over any of them. To wipe everything instead, tick Remove all metadata, which also deletes the creator, the producer and both dates.
Click Apply Changes to build the new copy, then Download Updated PDF to save it. The file arrives with -updated added to its name and your original is untouched. Clear resets the table and every box.
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Absolutely. All tools run entirely in your browser (client-side). Your data never leaves your device and is not sent to our servers.
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Document properties that sit beside the pages rather than on them: a title, an author, a subject line and a list of keywords, the program that created the content, the software that wrote the PDF, and the dates it was made and last changed. This tool shows all of them for one file.
Read the file, tick Remove all metadata, then click Apply Changes and Download Updated PDF. The copy you get back has the author, title, subject, keywords, creator, producer and dates removed, so the document no longer announces who wrote it, on what, or when.
Yes. The creation and modification dates are deleted along with the title, author, subject, keywords, creator and producer, and so is the XMP block that many programs store as a second copy of those details. Read the cleaned copy back in and every one of those rows shows a dash.
No. Metadata lives alongside the pages, not on them, so the visible content is untouched: a name in a letterhead, a signature block or a footer all stay exactly where they were. Only the hidden document properties change, and the pages themselves are copied across unaltered.
Never. Apply Changes builds a new document in memory and Download Updated PDF saves it beside the original, with -updated added to the name. The file you picked is only ever read. One thing does change in the copy: after an edit, its Modified date is set to the moment you clicked Apply Changes.
Because the document never had them filled in. Many PDFs are exported without a title or author, and a dash in the table simply means the field is absent rather than hidden. You can type your own values into the boxes and save a copy that carries them.
Creator is the program the content was written in, such as a word processor or a design application. Producer is the software that actually wrote the PDF out, such as an export engine or a print driver. Together they often reveal more about your setup than you expect.
Only partly. Any password protection, even a restriction password that lets the file open normally, also encrypts the title, author and other text details. The table still shows the page count, page size and that the file is encrypted, marks the text details as encrypted, and saving changes is switched off. An unlocked copy made with the PDF Password Helper tool can be given new details here, but the original ones are not carried across to it.