Clear the author, producer, creation software, keywords, timestamps, comment authors and the embedded XMP packet from a PDF before you send it out. Free in your browser — no sign-up, no watermarks.
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A PDF quietly carries who made it, on what software, when, and often the original file name or a corporate template name. That is fine inside a company and awkward the moment the document goes to a client, a counterparty or a job application. This clears the document information, both timestamps and the embedded XMP packet, and strips the reviewer names that comments carry while leaving the comments themselves alone. It does it properly: unlinking the XMP is not enough, because an unreferenced stream is still written into the file and stays readable in the bytes, so the packet is overwritten before it is unlinked.
PDF is the universal document format: it locks layout, fonts and images so a file looks identical on every device and printer. Scans, invoices, forms, e-books and reports all travel as PDF. Because a PDF is a container rather than an image, turning its pages into JPG or PNG pictures — or bundling pictures into a PDF — are among the most common file tasks there are.
Open a PDF’s properties and you often learn more about the sender than about the document. The author field carries whoever’s name was on the copy of Word that made it — frequently a colleague, sometimes a previous client whose template was reused. The producer field names the software and its version. The creation date says when the file was really written, which is awkward when a document was supposed to have been prepared last month. None of this is visible on the page, and almost nobody checks it before attaching a file to an email.
This tool empties the document information dictionary — title, author, subject, keywords, creator, producer — and both timestamps, then removes the XMP packet, which is a second, parallel copy of the same information that lives in the file as XML and is the part most tools forget.
A document that has been round a review cycle names everyone who touched it. Each comment, highlight and sticky note stores the reviewer’s name alongside the remark, and viewers display it in the margin. We remove those names and keep the comments themselves, because the remark is content and the name is not. Form fields are left completely alone: internally a field’s name is stored in the same place an annotation keeps its author, and confusing the two would quietly break the form.
There is one field worth thinking twice about. Screen readers announce a PDF by its title, and without one they fall back to the filename — so a stripped document becomes “invoice-final-v3-b.pdf” read aloud, character by character. If the title is descriptive rather than revealing, the option to keep it is there, and everything else still goes.
This changes what the file says about itself, not what is printed on its pages. A name in a letterhead, a signature block, a watermark or an address in the body text is content and stays exactly where it is — for those, remove the content itself with Redact PDF. Photographs placed inside a PDF can also carry their own camera and GPS data, which lives inside the image rather than in the document, and is untouched here.
Yes — completely free, with no sign-up, no watermarks and no daily quota. Processing happens in this browser, so the practical limit is the memory available on your device.
Yes. Add as many files as you like — each one is processed in sequence with its own progress status, and you can download the results individually or all together as a ZIP archive.
No. Pages are copied at the object level — text, fonts, images and vector content are carried over as-is, without re-rendering. The output keeps the same sharpness and searchable text as the original.
It removes the document-level metadata — title, author, subject, keywords, producer, creator, both timestamps and the XMP packet — plus the reviewer names attached to comments, while keeping the comments themselves. It does not touch text printed on the pages, embedded file attachments, or the camera and GPS data inside individual images; check those with the Metadata & Privacy Inspector.
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