I want to anonymize PDFs before sharing them with a wider audience, but I don’t know how to reliably strip metadata.

This feature helps you anonymize a PDF by removing metadata before you share it with a broader audience. It reduces the risk of accidentally exposing identifying details such as author names, document properties, and embedded history.

This feature is designed for people who need to share PDFs publicly while minimizing privacy and attribution risks. It focuses on stripping metadata that can reveal identifying information, such as author and organization fields, creation and modification timestamps, software used to generate the file, and other document properties. You use it by selecting a PDF and choosing to remove metadata before exporting or sharing the sanitized copy. The result is a new PDF intended for distribution, leaving your original file unchanged. This helps protect individuals and organizations when publishing reports, research papers, legal documents, or internal memos. It is especially useful when PDFs are uploaded to public websites, shared in community forums, or sent to mailing lists where recipients are unknown. By standardizing the cleanup step, the feature reduces reliance on manual, error-prone processes and inconsistent tools. It supports common workflows where you need to quickly prepare multiple documents for external release. The overall benefit is greater confidence that the file you share contains only the visible content you intended to disclose.