The PDF corner

See and clean a PDF's metadata

A PDF does not keep its metadata in one place, it has three. The tool shows you all three, empties them, then REOPENS the file it just made to tell you what is left.

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Drop your PDF hereOne document, and you will see everything it says. Nothing will be sent: the reading happens here, on your device.Choose a file

This file is beyond what this tool does

This tool needs JavaScript to work, and that is precisely because it works ON YOUR DEVICE: without JavaScript, your file would have to be sent to a server. The instructions and the limits of the tool, however, can be read without JavaScript, just below.

How this is built

Your file never leaves your device

This tool works entirely inside your browser. Not one byte of your file is sent anywhere, and nothing is kept once the tab is closed.

Checkable in ten seconds, without taking our word for it:

Open your browser's inspector: the F12 key (or Ctrl+Shift+I, or Cmd+Option+I on a Mac).
Go to the “Network” tab, then clear the list.
Process a file on this page. The list stays empty: no request goes out.
To go further: cut your connection and do it again. The tool still works.

This absence of requests is also checked BY MACHINE before every release: a lock drives a real browser, processes a real file, and refuses to publish if a single byte goes out.

The proof page, step by step and in pictures

Going further

InstructionsHow it works

PDFs only. For a photo's metadata (date, camera, GPS position), the “See and clean metadata” tool in the image corner does the same job on images.

VerifyThe proof, step by step

The network inspector check, explained one gesture at a time, with screenshots.

The cornerThe PDF corner

The other tools in this corner of the workshop.

UnderstandHow this is built

The formats actually handled, browser by browser, and what we ruled out.