Fix what a PDF says about itself
File lists, search results and PDF viewers show the title and author stored inside a document, and old files often show the wrong ones: a draft name as the title, a former colleague as the author, the program that exported it as the creator. This page shows those properties, lets you change or delete them and saves a new PDF. The file is processed in your browser and never uploaded.
Edit PDF properties in five steps
- Drop the PDF onto the drop zone or click it to choose the file. The form fills with what is stored in the file.
- Change the title, author, subject and keywords. The text is stored exactly as you type it, including accents and non-Latin letters.
- Adjust the creation and modification dates if needed. An empty field removes that property from the file.
- Pick the options: set the modified date to now, and remove other properties or the XMP data if the file has them.
- Press Save PDF and download the result. Restore file values undoes your edits.
Removing metadata before you share a file
Documents often carry the name of the author, the program used and the day they were made. Empty all fields followed by the options to remove other properties and XMP data strips all of that. Metadata is only part of the story: visible text, comments, attached files and hidden layers stay in the PDF, and this tool does not touch them.
Why two copies of the data can exist
A PDF can store its properties twice: in the document information, which the form edits, and in an XMP packet, a block of XML that some programs write and read first. If only the first copy changes, a program may keep showing the old title. When the file has an XMP packet, the tool offers to remove it. The price is small but real: a PDF/A mark lives in that packet and disappears with it.
What this tool leaves alone
Only the properties change. Pages, bookmarks, links and form fields are saved as they are, and the saved file has no password. A PDF can have up to 300 MB. An encrypted PDF asks for its password, which is used only in memory, and no request carries the content of your document.