The Properties, Personal Information and Metadata stored in files comes handy when you search for them on your computer, as they help in identifying the file, document, image, picture or photo. This metadata consists information like Date of creation, Author, Size and so on. But there may be times, when you may want to remove this personal information, before sending it to someone, for privacy reasons. If you need to do this, Windows 10/8/7 will let you do so.
PDF metadata standards. There are a number of standards for enriching PDF files with metadata. Below is a short summary: There are PDF substandards such as PDF/X and PDF/A that require the use of specific metadata. In a PDF/X-1a file, for example, there has to be a metadata field that describes whether the PDF file has been trapped or not. Essentially, Metadata contains all the properties of the file. However, many people do not know how to access or remove Metadata from their file. This step-by-step guide will help you to remove metadata from PDF files. Aside from Adobe Acrobat Pro, PDFelement is another PDF metadata editor that supports the removal of metadata from PDF documents. Jan 09, 2015 You can remove Properties, Personal information and Metadata from files, photos, images, documents, PDF in Windows 10/8/7, to protect your privacy.
Let us see how you can remove Properties, Personal information and metadata from files, documents, pictures, photos, images and PDF in Windows 10/8/7.
Remove Properties and Personal information
Right-click on the file whose Properties and Information you want to remove and select Properties.
Click on the Details tab and then on the Remove Properties and Personal Information link. The following Remove Properties box will open.
Here you can Create a copy with all possible properties removed or you can remove properties selectively by selecting the Remove the following properties from this file option.
If you chose the latter, you will be able to check the boxes to remove the property.
You will notice that not all file types support having all their Properties removed. You may not be able to remove some.
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In Windows 10/8.1, you will also be able to remove Properties, when you open a folder and select the file. From the ribbon > Properties, you can click on the Remove properties option.
Remove Pdf Properties List
Microsoft Office programs include a Document Inspector that allows users to easily see the metadata for the documents and remove them.
You can also use Document Metadata Cleaner to remove hidden and sensitive Word, Excel and PowerPoint Documents metadata information. It even lets you clean one or multiple documents at a time. You will get more details on this Office Documents Metadata Management post.
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Doc Scrubber is another free tool that lets you remove hidden data from documents.
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I would like to share a PDF file on a forum anonymously. When I right click on file and go to 'Details' tab, it shows my computer name and owner name. How do I remove (hide) this information?
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Those details exist for files other than PDFs. The Owner and Computer details you wish to remove are used for permissioning and only exist on your local computer. When you share that file elsewhere, the details will not be in the file.
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If you want to remove attributes and metadata from a PDF without using additional programs, you can open the PDF with Google Chrome, click print, and then select the Save As PDF setting from Chrome. Save the PDF and you'll see the data cleared when you go to File -> Properties in a PDF that was previously protected.
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Sometimes, Adobe PDFs are strange in that none of your 'properties' tab based advice worked, as least as far as removing names from a Comment box. They seem to do incremental or one-place only author name removals. If you like to comment in documents, then make the first comment, so that the comment box will pop-up. Then, remove the author's or login name and select 'Make Current Properties Default' so that the remaining comment boxes also don't show the author's names.
Unfortunately, you'll need to follow the other advice on this page to remove the overall author's name, like going to Property tabs.
Very annoying.
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I'm going to assume you're using Windows. If you right click and choose 'properties' on the .pdf, then choose the 'details' tab there is an option to 'Remove Properties and Personal Information'. You can choose what to remove, either some or all of the properties.
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I use Foxit Phantom PDF Business
Per the manual for Foxit Phantom Business, version 7.3, page 240 of 311 in the PDF (numbered page 239)
Remove Hidden Data
Foxit PhantomPDF supports to sanitize documents by removing the hidden information that is private or sensitive for users from their PDFs, generally including metadata, embedded content and attached files, scripts, etc.
You can remove hidden data from a PDF by one-click, please go to PROTECT > Hidden Data > Sanitize Document
. . . In my case, 7 PDFs went from a total of 109.0 MB to 56.5 MB. There was just a little highlighting done in one of the PDFs.
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I made it!!! Just go the document Word version, click save as, then before select 'pdf' under 'Save as type:', delete all is in the field 'Authors:' and also click on 'options' button on this window and deselect in the pop up window the 'document properties' and 'document structure tags for accessibility'. Then click 'ok' and 'Save'. Ta da!:)
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