A CV exported from a word processor usually carries the account name of the computer. A quote reveals the invoicing software. This information travels with the file unnoticed — until the day someone notices.
How it works
Drop your file on the page, or click to pick it from your folders.
Start the job. It runs inside your browser: nothing is sent to a server.
Download the result. No account, no watermark, no queue.
When this really helps
Send a CV
The workstation name or a former employer no longer travels with the file.
Pass on a company document
The internal software and the real author stay with you.
Publish a document
A file put online no longer reveals its production chain.
What the conversion keeps, and what it loses
Working inside a browser comes with limits a hosted service does not have. Here they are in plain words, so you know what to expect before you start.
What is kept
- All page content, identically
- Selectable text
- Image quality
What is not carried over
- The author and software names
- Creation and modification dates
- Title, subject and keywords
- Careful: text inside the pages is not concerned
Worth knowing about the format
Metadata are fields of the file, separate from the page content. Erasing them changes nothing of what is written: if sensitive information sits in the text, the editor is the tool to use.
Not the right tool?
- Add a watermark — Nettoyer le fichier et marquer les pages sont deux gestes complémentaires.
- Compress a PDF — Le rematriçage efface aussi au passage la couche de texte, donc davantage d'indices.
- Delete pages — Pour retirer réellement une page sensible plutôt que la masquer.
Why it's free
Online converters receive your file on their servers, process it, then promise to delete it. Every document costs them computing time: that is why they charge, and why they cap file sizes.
Here, the work happens on your own computer. The page contains no server code: your document cannot be received, because it is never sent. So there is nothing to bill, nothing to cap, and nothing to delete afterwards. Cut your connection once the page has loaded — everything keeps working.
Frequently asked questions
What exactly is erased?
Title, author, subject, keywords, the producing software name and the creation and modification dates. These are the fields a PDF reader shows in the document properties.
Does my personal data inside the text disappear?
No, and this matters: only the file metadata are emptied. To remove information written inside a page, use the editor then reprint the result as a PDF.
Does the document still open everywhere?
Yes. These fields are informative: no reader needs them to open the file.
Other tools
Edit the text in a PDF — Fix a line that is already written, even on a scanned document. This is the feature other services charge for, and the natural starting point when you need to retouch before converting.