I would like to share a PDF file on a forum anonymously. When I right click on file and go to 'Details' tab, it shows my computer name and owner name. How do I remove (hide) this information?
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Those details exist for files other than PDFs. The Owner and Computer details you wish to remove are used for permissioning and only exist on your local computer. When you share that file elsewhere, the details will not be in the file.
5If you want to remove attributes and metadata from a PDF without using additional programs, you can open the PDF with Google Chrome, click print, and then select the Save As PDF setting from Chrome. Save the PDF and you'll see the data cleared when you go to File -> Properties in a PDF that was previously protected.
Sometimes, Adobe PDFs are strange in that none of your "properties" tab based advice worked, as least as far as removing names from a Comment box. They seem to do incremental or one-place only author name removals. If you like to comment in documents, then make the first comment, so that the comment box will pop-up. Then, remove the author's or login name and select "Make Current Properties Default" so that the remaining comment boxes also don't show the author's names.
Unfortunately, you'll need to follow the other advice on this page to remove the overall author's name, like going to Property tabs.
Very annoying.
I made it!!! Just go the document Word version, click save as, then before select "pdf" under "Save as type:", delete all is in the field "Authors:" and also click on "options" button on this window and deselect in the pop up window the "document properties" and "document structure tags for accessibility". Then click "ok" and "Save". Ta da!:)
0I'm going to assume you're using Windows. If you right click and choose "properties" on the .pdf, then choose the "details" tab there is an option to "Remove Properties and Personal Information". You can choose what to remove, either some or all of the properties.
I use Foxit Phantom PDF Business
Per the manual for Foxit Phantom Business, version 7.3, page 240 of 311 in the PDF (numbered page 239)
Remove Hidden Data
Foxit PhantomPDF supports to sanitize documents by removing the hidden information that is private or sensitive for users from their PDFs, generally including metadata, embedded content and attached files, scripts, etc.
You can remove hidden data from a PDF by one-click, please go to PROTECT > Hidden Data > Sanitize Document
. . . In my case, 7 PDFs went from a total of 109.0 MB to 56.5 MB. There was just a little highlighting done in one of the PDFs.
1If you are saving a file as pdf using MS Word, then there is an option to remove the author's name when you save it. See the pic below for reference 1
Click on the author tab and remove it.
