PDFs carry the program and the person.
A PDF records who made it, with what program and when. FileSanity blanks those fields in place, so the PDF still opens exactly as before.
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What it removes
| Person | Author |
|---|---|
| Content | Title, subject and keywords in the document information |
| Device | Creator and producer: the programs that made the PDF |
| Time | Created and modified dates |
| XMP | The XMP metadata packet, plain or compressed, as Word and Acrobat save it |
| Photos | The camera, dates and GPS position inside JPEG photos stored in the PDF as they were taken |
What it leaves alone
- Every page, as it was
- Links, bookmarks and form fields
PDFs saved by Word and Acrobat keep their metadata inside compressed streams. FileSanity unpacks each one, blanks it and packs it back to exactly its old size, so nothing else in the file moves. Encrypted PDFs, and the rare stream packed in a way FileSanity does not rewrite yet, are the exceptions: that metadata is shown and kept, and the result says the file is not fully cleaned. It also warns when a PDF still holds earlier saved versions, where deleted or covered text may be readable, and when it runs JavaScript or contacts a web address as it opens.
Doing it by hand
To do it with Acrobat Pro or on the command line, read see and remove the metadata in a PDF.
Many files at once
Clean a folder's worth in one go on the batch page: one zip back, with a record of what was removed from each file.