PDF Metadata Editor
Open a PDF, see its title, author, subject, keywords and creation date, edit them, and download a copy with the updated metadata. Useful for fixing mislabeled files.
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PDF Metadata Editor is coming soon
Open a PDF, see its title, author, subject, keywords and creation date, edit them, and download a copy with the updated metadata. Useful for fixing mislabeled files.
We're still building this one. We'd rather not ship it until it works reliably end-to-end — no fake progress bars, no pretend success screens.
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Going deeper
The metadata PDFs carry
Every PDF carries a small block of metadata — title, author, subject, keywords, creation date, modification date, the software that produced it. This metadata shows up in file browsers, search indexes, and PDF readers. It's how a well-organized document library tells 'Quarterly Report Q3 2024' from 'Untitled-final-v3-final.pdf'.
Two practical tasks come up. The first is fixing bad metadata: documents exported from the wrong template, files that picked up the creator's username as the author, PDFs that lost their title during conversion. The second is privacy: PDF metadata can leak the author's name, the original file path on the author's computer, and the editing software used. Stripping metadata before sharing sensitive documents is a small but real privacy improvement.
Note that PDF metadata is separate from image metadata (EXIF data in embedded photos) and from the document's content stream. Editing PDF metadata doesn't affect the visible content of the document at all — only the descriptive information about it.
What you get
Features
Edit title, author, subject, keywords
Edit creation and modification dates
Strip all metadata option (one-click)
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Step by step
How to use
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Upload the PDF.
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Edit the metadata fields you want to change.
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Click Save.
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Download the updated PDF.
Your privacy
How this tool handles your file
When this tool ships, your PDF will be processed in a per-request temp directory and deleted immediately afterwards.
Read more about our security practices or see our privacy policy.
Frequently asked
Common questions
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