Edit PDF metadata

Edit a PDF's document properties

The title a reader shows in its tab bar, the author a library catalogue indexes, the keywords a search engine reads — all of it lives in a few metadata fields, and most PDFs have them wrong or blank.

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Most readers show the title in the tab and window bar, falling back to the file name only when it is missing. To remove the second, XMP copy of all this as well, use the sanitise tool.

How to edit a pdf's document properties

  1. 1

    Drop in the PDF

    The document is read on your device and rewritten there.

  2. 2

    Fill in what you want to change

    Leave a field blank to keep whatever is already there, or turn on Clear blank fields to wipe the ones you leave empty.

  3. 3

    Separate keywords with commas

    They are written as a proper keyword list rather than one long string, which is what indexers expect.

  4. 4

    Download

    Open Document properties in any reader to confirm.

Why the title matters more than you think

Most readers and most browsers show the metadata title in the tab and the window bar, falling back to the file name only when it is missing. A document whose title still says Microsoft Word - Untitled1.doc announces exactly that to everyone who opens it.

Producer and creator are different things

Creator is the application the content was authored in; Producer is what converted it to PDF. Both are set automatically and both leak your toolchain. Set them to whatever you want, or clear them.

Editing is not removing

This changes the information dictionary. A file may also carry an XMP packet with a second copy of the same fields; to get rid of both, use the sanitise tool.

Questions

Leave it blank and turn on Clear blank fields. Otherwise blanks are treated as leave alone, so you can change one field without disturbing the others.

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