Does editing metadata change the PDF content?
No. Only the document properties change. Pages, text, and images are untouched.
PDF METADATA
Every PDF carries properties most people never see: who wrote it, what software made it, and when. See them all here, change the ones that are wrong, or remove them before you send the file to anyone.
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About PDF metadata editor
How Can You Verify That Your Files Never Leave This Browser?
You do not have to take our word for it. Browser developer tools list every request a page makes, so you can watch 2pdf work and confirm that your document is never sent anywhere. The check takes about a minute.
- Open your browser developer tools with
F12, orCmd+Option+Ion a Mac, and select the Network tab. - Reload the page and let it finish. You will see the page's own files, its web fonts, the PDF engine, and one anonymous page-view request. No file has been chosen yet, so none of them can contain your document.
- Click the clear icon in the Network tab so that the log is empty.
- Choose a PDF in the PDF metadata editor tool above and press its button, then save the result.
- Look at the Network tab again. It is still empty, or it shows only files fetched from 2pdf.app itself, such as a standard font or an image decoder the PDF engine needed to draw a page. Click any of them: each one is a request for a file, and none carries your document. For extra proof, turn on offline mode after the page loads and the tools keep working.
Your file is read into this tab's memory with the browser's own file reader, processed by code that is already on the page, and handed back to you as a download. It is never uploaded, never stored in the browser, and gone when you close the tab. The only other request the site can make is the feedback form, and only when you submit it.
The production site also sends a Content-Security-Policy header that tells your browser to refuse connections to anywhere except this site and the anonymous analytics endpoint, so even a bug could not send a file elsewhere.
What Metadata Does a PDF Carry?
- Title, subject, and keywords: often left over from a template, and sometimes embarrassing.
- Author: usually filled in automatically from the name on the computer that made the file.
- Creator and producer: the app and the PDF software, including versions, such as a word processor and its PDF exporter.
- Created and modified dates: to the second, often with a time zone.
- XMP metadata: a separate block that can repeat all of the above and add more, such as an editing history.
Why Remove Metadata Before Sharing a PDF?
Because it says more than the document does. A resume might name the previous employer's computer as the author. A legal draft might show which firm's software made it and when it was last changed. A "final" report might carry a title from a different client's template. Stripping metadata is a standard step before publishing or sending a file outside an organization, and it takes one click here.
What Does Strip All Metadata Remove, and What Does It Leave?
- It removes every document property: title, author, subject, keywords, creator, producer, both dates, and any custom properties.
- It removes the XMP metadata block, if the file has one.
- It leaves the pages exactly as they are, including text, images, and links.
It does not change the content of embedded images, so a photo inside the PDF may still carry its own camera details (EXIF). If you need to drop everything except how the pages look, save the pages with PDF to images and rebuild a PDF from them with Images to PDF. Need to hide text on the page itself? 2redact is built for that.
How Do You Edit a Single Property?
Change the field and press Save changes. Only the fields you changed are written; everything else is left as it was. Clearing a field removes that property from the file entirely rather than saving it as blank. Keywords can be separated by commas or spaces. Dates use your local time and are stored with the time zone.
What Else Can You Do With a PDF Here?
- Merge PDF: Combine PDFs, JPG and PNG images, and text files into one PDF, in the order you choose.
- Split PDF: Extract a page range, or cut a PDF into single pages, fixed-size parts, or your own ranges.
- Organize PDF pages: See every page as a thumbnail, then reorder, rotate, delete, or insert blank pages.
- Rotate PDF: Rotate every page or just the pages you list by 90, 180, or 270 degrees, losslessly.
- Fill PDF form: Fill text boxes, checkboxes, radio buttons, and dropdowns in a PDF form, then flatten if you like.
- Images to PDF: Turn JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, or BMP images into one PDF, with Letter, A4, or fit-to-image pages.
- PDF to images: Render PDF pages to PNG or JPG images at the resolution you pick, one image per page.
- Extract text from PDF: Pull the text out of a PDF page by page, then copy it or save it as a plain .txt file.
All nine tools are on the 2pdf home page. Part of the 2suite.io privacy-first ecosystem.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does 2pdf add its own name to my file?
No. 2pdf does not stamp a producer, creator, or date on any file it saves, in any tool.
Can I see metadata without changing anything?
Yes. Open the file and read the form. Nothing is saved unless you press a button and download.
Can I edit metadata of a password-protected PDF?
No. Encrypted PDFs cannot be edited here; remove the protection first.