Scrub PDF Metadata

Strip author, title, subject, keywords, creator, producer, creation date, and modification date from a PDF — for sharing externally without leaking who made it or when.

Your files never leave your browser. All processing happens on your device — nothing is uploaded.

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How does the Scrub PDF Metadata work?

Strip every metadata field from a PDF — Title, Author, Subject, Keywords, Creator (the source app), Producer (the PDF library), Creation Date, Modification Date — and remove the XMP metadata stream (which can carry richer fields like GPS coordinates from a phone-scanned PDF, or change-tracking entries from Word). Useful before publicly sharing internal documents that might leak who made them, when, on what software. Note: this does not affect content; only header metadata. To strip embedded usernames in document content (e.g. comment authors), run Export Annotations to JSON first to audit what's embedded.

🔒 Security & Privacy

All processing happens on your device. Your files never leave your browser, never touch our servers, and are not stored anywhere. Close the tab and the file is gone.

📱 Use it on any device

Works in any modern browser — Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, Android, and tablets. No installation, no app to download. Just open the page and start.

⚡ Quick & easy

Drag, drop, click. Most files process in seconds, not minutes. No watermarks added to your output, no per-day limits, and the tool always shows the result before asking you to download.

🎁 Always free, no signup

Free to use, every time. No account creation, no email required, no “trial” that converts to a paid plan. We make money from ads so you don’t have to pay.

Frequently asked

Not touched. This tool only scrubs document-level metadata (the dictionary in the file trailer + XMP). Visual / embedded watermarks live as page content — to remove those, edit the page directly with PDF Editor or the Whiteout tool.

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