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Edit PDF Metadata

See, change or remove the title, author and other document properties

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About Edit PDF Metadata

PDFs carry document properties such as title, author, subject and keywords, often filled in automatically with your name or a company account. Search engines and file browsers show the title instead of the file name.

Remove clears these properties before you share a file. Set writes the values you enter. Either way, the result shows what the file contained before the change.

Remove or set?

  • Remove before sharing a file outside your organisation, so your name and software details don’t travel with it.
  • Set a clear title before publishing a PDF on a website; browsers and search results show it.
  • Add keywords when files go into a document library that searches them.

What is not changed

Page content, text, images, comments and form fields stay as they are. Each field is limited to 200 characters.

How to use it

  1. 1Choose or drop a PDF
  2. 2Choose Remove, or Set and enter new values
  3. 3Apply, check the previous values, then download

Questions

What is removed?

The document properties, such as title, author, subject and keywords. The page content is not changed.

Does it remove hidden text or comments?

No. It changes document properties only. Use Flatten PDF for annotations.

Why set a title?

Browsers, search results and many PDF readers show the title in place of the file name.

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