See what a PDF says about its author
PDFs carry fields most people never see: who created the file, which program produced it, and when. This tool shows you what is recorded in a document before you share it.
Live privacy check
How to pdf metadata viewer
- Drop in the PDF you want to examine.
- Click Read metadata.
- Review the fields. Anything empty is simply not recorded in that file.
Why this PDF tool is private
This tool only reads. It never writes to your file and never uploads it — which matters here, because the metadata you are inspecting is exactly the information you would not want to hand to a stranger.
Other tools in this category upload your file to a server, process it in the cloud, and return a download link. That means your document sits on someone else's disk — often with a retention window measured in hours. Here, the file is read by your browser, transformed in memory, and saved straight back to your disk. You can watch it happen in the live check above: the counter for files uploaded stays at zero.