PDF MetaClean
Strip PDF metadata at byte level, no re-encoding
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Details
- External ID
- 1267985
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Photo MetaClean
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3252774120744781
- Tags
- Productivity, Developer Tools, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
A PDF carries more than you typed: author, software, creation time, and often a client's address. PDF MetaClean audits first, showing exactly which tags are present, then strips the trailer /Info outright. Pages are never re-encoded, so the file stays byte-identical apart from the metadata. - see every tag before you touch the file - --verbose lists the real values - byte-level strip, no re-render - --self-check asserts the metadata is gone - one Windowsexe, zero dependencies, MIT
Enrichment
- Niche
- document and PDF manipulation tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- metadata removal tool for pdf documents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a targeted binary manipulation utility that reads PDF trailers and objects (using standard libraries or low-level byte parsing) and strips metadata dictionaries without re-rendering.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 359 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #126 of 360 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 297 days after the earliest competitor.
- PDF Metadata Remover · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Cleanpdf — Free PDF Metadata Remover · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- DropMeta · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- BytePriva · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- hddn · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- WipePDF · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- PDF Metadata Tools · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Local PDF Tools · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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Same idea, different domain
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