PDF metadata viewer
PDF metadata viewer
Read what a PDF says about itself — title, author, the software that made it, its dates, version and page count.
How this is calculated
The document information dictionary and the XMP metadata stream are read as they are stored and printed without interpretation. A field the file does not carry is shown as not set rather than guessed.
- Metadata is written by whatever produced the file and can be edited or removed by anyone. An author name or a creation date here is a claim the file makes, not evidence of who wrote it or when.
- Dates are stored with their own UTC offset where the writer supplied one. A date shown without an offset is local to the machine that made the file, and this page cannot know which machine that was.
- Your file is read by this page in your own browser. It is never uploaded, never stored on this server and never sent to anyone. Closing the tab clears it, and the download link is released as soon as you run the tool again.
Read what a PDF says about itself — title, author, subject, keywords, the producer and creator software, creation and modification dates, PDF version and page count — with the raw XMP packet on request.
Claims, not evidence
Everything here was written by whatever produced the file, and any of it can be set to anything by anyone with an editor. An author name is not proof of authorship and a creation date is not proof of when the work was done. Metadata is useful for provenance clues and for checking what you are about to share.
A field the file does not carry is shown as not set, not filled in with a plausible default. That distinction matters: a missing producer means the tool recorded none, not that the file came from somewhere unknown and suspicious.
Dates and the XMP packet
PDF dates carry a time zone when the writer supplied one. A date without an offset was written in the local time of the machine that made the file, and this page cannot know which machine or which zone, so it does not guess.
Older files keep their properties in a document information dictionary; newer ones also embed an XMP stream, an XML packet that can carry more. When the two disagree both are true statements about the file, so this page prints the dictionary fields and offers the XMP packet verbatim rather than merging them into one answer.
Questions readers ask
Can I remove my name from a PDF here?
No. This page only reads; it does not edit metadata and will not pretend to. A rewrite elsewhere may strip it — check the result with this viewer.
Why does a file made today say PDF 1.7?
Because many tools still write 1.7 with extensions, and PDF 2.0 syntax is not required for modern features. The version describes syntax, not age.
Is the XMP packet safe to read?
It is shown as plain text in a copyable block and never executed. It is still untrusted input from whoever made the file, so do not paste it anywhere that interprets XML.
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