Observed arrival · 2026-11-06
Unmark PDF cleans metadata—and offers a rewrite switch
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A browser-based tool for reading documents, removing metadata and hidden marks, and creating a fresh PDF.
- For
- People sanitizing documents before sharing
- Worth noticing
- Its strictest mode renders each page and reads visible content with OCR, rather than relying on the PDF's text layer.
Field notes
The page separates ordinary text-layer reading from a stricter mode that renders each page and uses OCR, which it says leaves hidden or white text behind. Its recreated PDFs use standard fonts and can preserve selected structure, but not images, colors, embedded fonts, or exact spacing. The page says the free version handles about 10 pages per document and cautions that no tool can guarantee a file is untraceable.
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