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See and strip hidden metadata. No upload.
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PDFs and photos carry more than you think: author names, internal template names, software versions, GPS coordinates, device serials and timestamps. Docfy shows those fields before you send a file, then removes them locally in the browser.
PH · launched Nov 4, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: document and pdf metadata removers · 16 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Compliance & governance
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- User Experience
- Tech
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More like this: all 16 launches in document and pdf metadata removers →
Could you build this?
Yes Reading and stripping metadata from PDFs and images can run entirely in the browser using existing libraries such as EXIF and PDF parsers, with a simple UI on top.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 829 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #258 of 830 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 355 days after the earliest competitor.
- PDF Metadata Remover · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- Cleanpdf — Free PDF Metadata Remover · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Barecopy · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- PDF MetaClean · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- BeforeShare · ph · 2026-10-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- PrivacyMetadata · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- DropMeta · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- BytePriva · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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