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.
Delete metadata from pdf and the Info dictionary goes first. Remove metadata from pdf clears the hidden XMP copy too, not just the visible one. Clean pdf metadata means both places, every time — nothing partial. Clear metadata from pdf happens automatically the moment you drop a file. Pdf strip metadata is the same one-step pass, no settings to configure. A pdf metadata remover clears the Info dictionary automatically. An online pdf metadata remover clears the hidden XMP copy in the same pass. A pdf metadata scrubber is just a third name for the same one action, not a different tool.
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.
Searching how to remove pdf metadata or how to delete metadata from pdf usually turns up multi-step guides involving a PDF editor's properties panel; here it is one step — drop the file, 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.
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.
Yes — ScanReviver runs online in your browser. Upload, wait a few seconds, download. No account, no install.
Really free — no trial limit, no card, no watermark. Drop the file in and the download is ready seconds later.
Yes — ScanReviver does this free in your browser on macOS. No account, no watermark and nothing to install.
Yes, free. ScanReviver has no watermark, no account and no credit card — upload and download as often as you like.
Yes — ScanReviver does this free in your browser on Linux too, since it's the browser doing the work, not an installed app.
Same result, different route: unlike Acrobat, ScanReviver runs in your browser — nothing to install and nothing to pay. Try it above.
Yes, the Info dictionary and the XMP packet.
Yes, every property field is wiped, free.
Yes — upload it from your browser and the removal happens on our server, nothing to install.
No, only the metadata fields — text and images stay untouched.
Just drop the file — wiping happens automatically before download.
Yes, drop the file and every field is cleared instantly.
No, it clears both the Info dictionary and the XMP packet.
The same one step as on a computer — drop the file.
Yes, no account, no watermark, no daily cap.
Just PDF metadata fields — page content is never touched.
Drop the file here — no paid plan needed for any field.
Yes, along with Subject, Keywords, Creator and Producer.
This tool also clears the hidden XMP copy most panels skip.
Yes, it happens the instant you drop the file in.
No, an embedded photo's own EXIF data is left alone.
Nothing is re-compressed — only the metadata fields change.
No, both the classic properties and the XMP copy are cleared.
Drop the file — the author field is wiped with everything else.
No account, no install, no watermark.
Completely — every field the PDF format defines is cleared.
Yes, it runs the same way in any browser on any system.
Yes, this tool clears PDF document metadata fields only.
No, every field clears for free, with no premium tier that gates any of them.
Drop it here instead — nothing to install or pay for.
Yes, it runs the same free in any Mac browser.
Yes, only the metadata fields are touched.
Yes, upload and download as often as you like.
No — this clears a PDF's own metadata fields only. To remove metadata from picture files (EXIF, camera model, GPS), you'd need a separate photo-metadata tool; embedded images inside a PDF keep their own EXIF data untouched too.
No — there's no pdf metadata editor here to edit pdf metadata or pdf edit metadata field by field; this tool only wipes every field at once. If you need to change author or title rather than clear it, that needs a different, editing-capable tool.
Clear pdf metadata is the only mode this page has: author, title, subject, keywords, creator, producer and both timestamps go blank in one pass. There is no way to remove pdf metadata field by field, so if you want to keep the title you will have to type it back in a PDF editor afterwards.
No — this tool has no pdf metadata viewer built in; it clears fields on drop without showing them first. To view metadata pdf beforehand, check the file's properties panel in your PDF reader before you upload it here.
No — this only works on PDFs. To remove metadata from word or remove metadata in word, convert the document to PDF first with Word to PDF, then drop that file in here.