Papyx
See and fix a PDF's metadata
A PDF carries more than its pages: a title that is often wrong, an author that is the machine's username, a producer naming the software it came from. Those fields travel with the file and anyone can read them in one click.
Papyx shows them all and lets you rewrite them: title, author, subject, keywords, creator, producer. It is the last thing to check before a document goes outside.
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- Writes
- Engine
pdf-lib- Protected documents
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Edit a PDF's metadata (title, author, keywords)
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Open the PDF
The existing fields appear exactly as they are written in the file.
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Fix what needs fixing
Title, author, subject, keywords, creator, producer.
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Save
The document is rewritten with the new fields and its content unchanged.
Worth knowing
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Six fields
Title, author, subject, keywords, creator and producer, read and written.
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Reading first
You see what the file already carries before deciding what to change.
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Content untouched
Only the fields are rewritten; the pages are copied across as they are.
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Before it goes out
The right move just before a document leaves the organisation.
Limits
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Papyx writes the document's classic information fields; it does not rewrite extended XMP metadata.
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Revision history and annotations are not cleaned up by this tool.
Questions about “Metadata”
How do I remove my name from a PDF?
Open the Metadata tool, clear the author field (and the creator, which the originating software usually fills in), then save. The page content is not modified.
Which metadata can I edit?
Title, author, subject, keywords, creator and producer — the document's information fields, read and rewritten.
Does the document's content change?
No. The pages are copied across as they are; only the metadata fields are rewritten.