2026-10-03

A PDF Metadata Editor That Never Uploads Your File (Edit or Remove Author, Title and Dates)

Searching for a PDF metadata editor mostly turns up online services that take your file, change the fields on their server and send it back. That is a strange trade for a job whose whole purpose is usually privacy: you are removing an author name or a software trail from a file and handing the file itself to a third party to do it. The PDF Metadata Editor does the same work inside your browser tab, so the file never leaves your device.

What it does

• Shows what is there. Upload a PDF and see its title, author, subject, keywords, creator, producer, created and modified fields, plus any custom keys the file carries and whether it has an XMP packet.
• Edits any field. Change a value, or clear a field to remove it. A Now button fills a date with the current time.
• Removes everything. The privacy option deletes every document-information field, custom ones included, in one click.
• Does not stamp its own mark. The file is opened without letting the PDF library add its own producer or the current time, so the only changes are yours.
• Handles the XMP copy. Many PDFs store a second copy of this information as an XMP packet. It is removed on save so it cannot disagree with your edits.

What it does not do

Removing metadata is not the same as anonymising a file. It does not touch what is on the pages: a name in the text, hidden text, comments, embedded files, bookmarks, form values and metadata inside embedded images all stay. A digital signature will no longer validate after the file is saved. An encrypted PDF has to be opened with Unlock PDF first, and you can lock the result again with Protect PDF.

When another tool is the better fit

Full document sanitising. Desktop PDF editors such as Adobe Acrobat have Document Properties and dedicated redaction and sanitising features that go further, for example removing hidden content and comments in one pass. If a file is sensitive, use one of those and check the result.

Command-line batches. For thousands of files, a command-line tool such as exiftool or qpdf is easier to script than a browser page.

Metadata that lives elsewhere. If the identifying detail is in the pages or in an embedded image, no metadata editor will find it. Compress PDF can strip metadata as part of shrinking the file, and PDF to Text is a quick way to see what text is really in the document.

Verdict

To see or change a PDF's title, author and dates, or to strip the document-information fields before sharing, without uploading the file anywhere, try the PDF Metadata Editor. For a file that must be fully sanitised, use a desktop tool and verify the result.

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