Inspect a PDF’s title, author, creator, producer and dates.
Up to 100 MB
Processed on your device — nothing is uploaded
A document you received
See who and what produced it
received.pdfBefore publishing
Check for an author name you did not intend
draft.pdfAn exported file
See which application wrote it
export.pdfIt is parsed in your browser.
Only fields that are actually present are listed.
If something identifies you, strip it before sharing the file.
Empty fields are shown as absent rather than filled with placeholder text, so you can tell the difference between "no author" and "author unknown".
PDF stores timestamps in its own format with timezone offsets appended. They are decoded here into ordinary readable dates.
The creator and producer fields usually name the exact software and version that made the file, which is often more revealing than the author field.
See what a PDF says about itself. The document information dictionary holds a title, author, subject, keywords, the application that created it, the software that wrote the file and both creation and modification timestamps — and much of it is filled in automatically, which is how a document ends up carrying an author name or an internal file path nobody meant to publish. This viewer parses those fields, decodes the PDF date format into something readable, and reports what is genuinely there rather than inventing defaults.
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