Document Metadata Scrubber
Strip author, company & revision data from PDF and Office files.
Runs entirely in your browser — nothing you enter is uploaded, logged, or tracked.
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files quietly carry your name, your company, the editing app, revision counts and creation dates — the exact fields that have burned anonymous sources. This tool reads that hidden metadata, shows you every field it found, then strips it (with a before/after diff so nothing fails silently) and hands back a cleaned file — all in your browser, with nothing uploaded.
| Field | Before | After |
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No identifying metadata found in this file. It is already clean.
This strips container metadata — the document’s own properties (author, company, revision history, creation/modification dates, the editing application, and any XMP packet). It does not alter pixels inside embedded images, which can carry their own EXIF/GPS data. For those, run images through the EXIF metadata remover first, and use the image redactor to black out faces or text.
Frequently asked questions
What metadata does it remove?
For PDFs: the document Info dictionary (Title, Author, Subject, Keywords, Creator, Producer, CreationDate, ModDate) plus the entire XMP metadata packet. For Office files (.docx/.xlsx/.pptx) it clears docProps/core.xml and app.xml — author, last-modified-by, company, manager, revision number, total editing time, the application name, and created/modified/printed dates. It shows you exactly which fields had data and confirms each is gone.
Are my files uploaded anywhere?
No. The file is read, parsed and rewritten entirely in your browser using vendored, self-hosted libraries (pdf-lib and fflate). There are no network requests and nothing is logged — you can disconnect from the internet and it still works.
Does this remove metadata from images inside the document?
No — and the tool says so plainly. It strips the document container's own properties, not the pixels of embedded photos, which can carry their own EXIF/GPS data. Clean images with the EXIF Metadata Remover first, and use the Image Redactor to black out faces or text, then place them in your document.
Will scrubbing break the file?
No. PDFs are re-saved with their Info dictionary emptied and the orphaned XMP stream fully deleted from the file (not just unlinked), so the metadata can't be recovered with a forensic byte search. Office files keep their full structure — only the identifying values inside the property XML are blanked, leaving valid, openable documents.
Why does it sometimes say it couldn't fully clean a file?
If a re-read of the scrubbed file shows any field still carrying data, the tool refuses to offer the download rather than give you a false sense of safety. This can happen with unusual or password-protected files. It's deliberate: an honest failure beats a silent leak.