Before you start: reading and editing the properties is free and needs no account. A PDFMod licence is what saves the finished file — $99 once for the whole toolkit, or $25 for a week.
The work is free; saving the finished file needs a licence. Run the whole job first, with your network tab open if you like — nothing about your document leaves this tab. $99 once, or $25 a week.
Drop a PDF here
Or click to choose one. It is read in this tab. We never see it.
PDF document properties.
The title, author, subject and keywords a PDF carries around with it — often the name of whoever drafted it, and often not what the file is called. Read them, change them, or clear the lot.
$99 once and the whole toolkit is yours — Acrobat is about $155 a year and stops working the day you stop paying. And the document you are cleaning up stays on your laptop: we never see it, because nothing you open here is stored on a server.
Runs on this device · we never see your file
Details other tools get wrong
- The second copy. Most PDFs carry the same values twice: once in the document information dictionary and again in an XMP packet. Clear only the first and the name is still in the file, where any reader can index it. PDFMod removes both.
- The library’s fingerprint. The usual PDF libraries stamp their own name into Producer and rewrite the modification date the moment a file is opened — so you edit the title and quietly lose the real ones. PDFMod turns that off, everywhere.
- A password-protected file is opened, and comes back protected. Editing one means writing it back out, and writing out a document you had to decrypt would normally produce one that is no longer encrypted — an invisible downgrade nobody asked for. So PDFMod asks for the password, makes your change, and puts the same password back on the copy you download. Nothing here hands you an unlocked copy of a locked file. You can still take the password off deliberately in Protect first, if that is what you want.
- Document properties are not the only place a name hides. Text in the pages themselves is untouched here — that is what Redact is for.