PDF metadata viewer

What a PDF says about itself

Every PDF can carry a small set of document properties inside it, separate from its visible content: a title, an author, the software used to create it and the one used to produce the final PDF, and the dates it was created and last changed. This information is set by whatever program made the file, is not always filled in, and is not always visible unless you look for it.

What is shown

• Title, subject and keywords, often set by the author or left blank.
• Author, the name attached to the document, which may or may not be who currently has it.
• Creator and producer, the application that made the original content and the one that generated the PDF file itself, which can reveal what software chain produced a document, such as a word processor followed by a specific PDF export tool.
• Creation and modification dates, as recorded inside the file, which may differ from the file's own timestamp on disk.

Why this is useful

Checking a document's stated author and creation date can be a useful sanity check, for research, for verifying a document matches what it claims to be, or simply out of curiosity about how a PDF was made. It is also worth checking before sharing a document externally, since an author name or company left in the properties travels with the file even after the visible content has been edited.

What it does not do

These properties are set by whoever created the file and are not verified or enforced by the PDF format itself, so they can be inaccurate, outdated or missing entirely. This tool only reads what is there; it does not edit or remove it. Your PDF is read entirely in your browser and is never uploaded.