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.
By ShinobiTools Team · Last updated: August 2026
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.
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 PDF metadata remover that only clears the Info dictionary leaves the XMP copy behind. Here both go in the same pass, automatically, the moment you drop a file, so there is nothing left to strip out afterwards and no settings to configure. Whether you want to delete metadata from PDF exports before sharing them or remove metadata from PDF drafts, the removal is complete.
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.
Guides on how to remove PDF metadata usually walk you through a PDF editor's properties panel in several steps; here it is one step, and it is already done by the time the download starts.
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. That is how to remove metadata from PDF files in one step.
Yes. It will remove the author 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 and nothing is re-compressed.
XMP metadata attached to embedded images is removed as well, but EXIF data stored inside an image's own bytes is not touched. To remove metadata from picture files themselves (camera model, GPS), you need a photo metadata tool.
25 pages and 250 MB per file on the free tier, or 200 pages and 500 MB with a pass. There is no account, no watermark and no daily cap, and the file is handled in memory, never written to disk.
Yes. It runs in any browser on Windows, macOS, Linux or a phone, because the metadata is stripped on our server. Upload, wait a few seconds, download: removing metadata from a PDF online needs no install and no account.
Yes. There is no trial, no card and no watermark, and every field is cleared on the free tier.
Same result, different route: unlike Acrobat, ScanReviver runs in your browser, with nothing to install and nothing to pay.
No. There is no PDF metadata editor here: you can't edit PDF metadata field by field, only wipe every field at once. To edit metadata such as the title instead of clearing it, use the document properties in a PDF editor; the same goes for any PDF edit metadata task like changing the author.
That is all this page does: clear PDF metadata, nothing else. Author, title, subject, keywords, creator, producer and both timestamps go blank in one pass. As a metadata cleaner it has one mode only, so if you want to keep the title, type it back in with your editor afterwards.
Not here: there is no PDF metadata viewer built in, and the fields are cleared on drop without being shown. To view metadata PDF readers can show, open the file's properties panel (File, Properties) in your PDF reader before you upload it.
No, this only works on PDFs. To remove metadata in Word, use Word's own Inspect Document; or convert the document to PDF with Word to PDF and drop that file in here.
No. Only the metadata fields change, so removing them doesn't re-encode the pages and nothing loses quality. Erase the properties and the file is otherwise identical.
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