Edit PDF metadata — free

View and edit your PDF’s document properties — title, author, subject, keywords, creator, producer and the creation and modification dates. The current values are loaded automatically so you can update just what you need.

All editing happens in your browser; your PDF is never uploaded. Free, private and unlimited.

How to Edit Metadata

1. Drop the PDF whose details you want to edit, or click to browse.
2. Edit the metadata fields — the current values are pre-filled.
3. Click “Save Metadata”.
4. Download your updated PDF.

Why use PDFLove Edit Metadata?

• Loads the current title, author and properties automatically.
• Edit title, author, subject, keywords, creator and producer.
• Clean up or standardize document properties in seconds.
• On-device — your PDF is never uploaded.

When to use this tool

Editing metadata is useful for correcting an auto-generated title, adding your name as author, setting keywords for searchability, or removing an old producer/creator string before publishing. It’s common when preparing files for a library, DMS or public release.

Good to know

A PDF’s metadata — title, author, subject and keywords — is the information shown in a viewer’s title bar, in file properties, and to the search and document systems that index it. Editing it is a quick way to make a file look professional and to make it findable later.

Two reasons it matters: a proper title and author read far better than a filename like ‘scan_final_v3’, and clearing metadata is a privacy step, since documents often carry the original author’s name or software details you may not want to share. Set the fields deliberately — or blank them out — before sending a file externally.