PDF Metadata Viewer — Inspect Titles, Authors & Dates
See exactly what is embedded in your PDF: title, author, producer, dates, page count and more. Read-only and 100% private.
PDF Metadata Viewer reads the invisible information embedded inside every PDF and shows it in a clean, human-readable table. That information includes the document title, its author, the application that produced it, the dates when it was created and last modified, and administrative fields like keywords and subject. This is exactly the metadata that shows up in Adobe Reader’s File → Properties dialog — without needing to install anything.
The tool is strictly read-only. It never modifies your PDF, never uploads it, and never stores it. The file you drop is opened in memory using pdf-lib, its metadata is extracted, and the result is displayed. Close the tab and every trace disappears.
- Read Title, Author, Subject, Keywords, Producer, Creator
- Show CreationDate and ModificationDate in your local timezone
- Display page count and PDF version
- Copy every field with one click for reporting or auditing
- Read-only — no changes are ever written to your PDF
- 1Upload the PDF whose properties you want to inspect.
- 2The tool decodes the /Info dictionary using pdf-lib.
- 3Read the properties in a clean, human-readable table.
- 4Copy any field to your clipboard if needed — nothing is saved.
- Producer often reveals the actual software used (e.g. LibreOffice, Word, Chrome print-to-PDF)
- Empty fields are normal — not every PDF sets author or subject metadata
- Dates in PDF are stored in UTC; the viewer converts them to your local time
PDF metadata is often overlooked, but it can carry surprising amounts of information. A CV downloaded from a colleague may still show the previous applicant’s name in the Author field. A leaked contract may reveal which law firm actually produced it via the Producer field. A scanned invoice may embed the exact device model in the Creator field. For anyone auditing documents — lawyers, forensic investigators, compliance officers, journalists — this metadata is often the first clue.
Even for everyday users, metadata is useful. Sorting PDFs by CreationDate is far more reliable than by filesystem date (which resets on copy). Knowing the Producer helps you decide whether a PDF is likely to be OCR’d, structurally clean, or a photo scan.
Title, Author, Subject and Keywords are the four standard “document info” fields. Any of them can be empty. Creator is typically the authoring application (e.g. “Microsoft Word for Microsoft 365”), while Producer is the tool that actually wrote the PDF bytes (e.g. “Microsoft: Print To PDF”). CreationDate is the moment the PDF was first written; ModificationDate updates whenever the file is saved after editing. Beyond these, we also show PDF version and page count — both essential for compatibility checks.
When you drop a PDF, we load it with pdf-lib and read its /Info dictionary, which is where the standard metadata fields live. Modern PDFs also embed metadata inside an XMP packet, but the /Info dictionary remains the primary source that PDF readers display. We decode string fields using PDF’s standard encoding rules (converting hex-encoded UTF-16BE strings correctly), and we parse the standard date format (D:YYYYMMDDhhmmss+offset) into a JavaScript Date object that is then displayed in your local timezone.
Because we only read metadata, the extraction is instantaneous even for very large PDFs — we never touch page content streams.
Uploading a PDF just to read its metadata is like emailing a private letter to check its date. There is no reason to expose the entire content of a document when only its properties are needed. That is why we built the metadata viewer as a pure client-side tool: no upload, no queue, no third-party services. It is safe to run on confidential material and can be used inside enterprise environments that prohibit uploading documents to external websites.
Your files never leave your browser. All parsing, page rendering and PDF assembly happens locally on your device using open-source libraries (pdf-lib and pdf.js). ilovedigital.in cannot see, store or share the contents of your documents.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the PDF Metadata Viewer — Inspect Titles, Authors & Dates tool and how your data is handled.
Does the viewer modify my PDF?
Why is the Author field empty?
Are dates shown in my timezone?
Are my PDFs uploaded?
Can I edit metadata here?
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