Your file never touches our disk.This tool works entirely in memory and hands the result straight back in the same response — unlike the other tools on this site, there is no 45-minute copy sitting on our server afterwards, because none is ever written.
By ShinobiTools Team · Last updated: August 2026
A PDF whose properties still show your name, your company, or the software that made it, even after you meant to make it anonymous. This strips every metadata field, including the XMP packet underneath that a plain "clear properties" usually misses. Nothing is re-compressed — the existing text and images are untouched.
The classic Info dictionary (Author, Title, Subject, Keywords, Creator, Producer) is what most "clear metadata" tools touch. A second, XMP-based copy of the same information often sits alongside it, written by the app that created the file, and is easy to miss because most PDF viewers do not show it in their properties panel. This tool clears both, not just the one that is visible.
A document's author, company or originating software is not always meant to travel with the file — a template shared outside a company, a draft that should not reveal who wrote it, or a file that should not leak the internal software stack that produced it.
This tool works entirely in memory and hands the result straight back in the same response — there is no copy sitting on our server afterwards, because none is ever written.
Need to check what is left in a file before sending it? Most PDF viewers show document properties under File → Properties — open the download there to confirm the fields are empty. Cleaning up a scanned document at the same time? Clean a scan handles the page content.
Metadata is invisible — the file's properties, not what's on the page. If something sensitive is sitting right in the visible text instead, like a name or account number, clearing metadata will not touch it. Redact PDF permanently removes that part of the page itself.
Drop the PDF in and press nothing else — the moment it is dropped, every metadata field is wiped and the download starts.
Yes, along with title, subject, keywords, creator and producer — every field the PDF format defines for document properties.
Most PDF apps write document properties twice: once in the classic Info dictionary, and again in an XMP packet meant for other software to read. Clearing only the first one leaves the author's name sitting in the second, still readable by anyone who opens the file's raw contents. This tool clears both.
No. Only the metadata fields are touched — the pages, text and images are untouched.
No, this clears the PDF document's own metadata fields. An embedded photo's own EXIF data, if any, is not touched.
25 pages per file. There is no account, no watermark and no daily cap.