PDF Privacy Scanner
Scan PDF documents for hidden metadata, personal information, tracking data, and privacy risks before sharing. Perfect for ensuring document privacy and removing sensitive information.
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Complete Guide: PDF Privacy Scanner
Everything you need to know about using this tool effectively
PDF Privacy Scanner performs a comprehensive privacy audit on your PDF documents. It detects personally identifiable information, hidden metadata, revision history, JavaScript code, embedded files, and external links that could compromise privacy. The scanner generates a detailed risk report with recommendations and can automatically remove detected risks from your document.
This tool performs a comprehensive privacy audit on PDF documents. It scans for personally identifiable information, hidden metadata, revision history, JavaScript code, embedded files, and other elements that could compromise privacy. The scanner generates a detailed report highlighting all detected risks with recommendations for remediation.
Document Sharing
Scan PDFs before sharing externally to ensure no sensitive metadata is included
Compliance Auditing
Verify PDF documents meet privacy regulations like GDPR and HIPAA before distribution
Legal Discovery
Identify hidden content and metadata in documents during legal review processes
Corporate Security
Audit outgoing PDF documents to prevent accidental disclosure of internal information
Upload PDF for scanning
Click the upload area or drag your PDF onto it. The scanning process starts automatically and runs entirely in your browser.
Analyze privacy risks
The scanner checks for PII, hidden metadata, revision history, JavaScript, embedded files, and external links, then flags each finding by severity.
Review and download report
Read the detailed risk report, then choose to download a cleaned version with detected risks removed or keep the original.
Run a privacy scan on all PDFs before external distribution
Pay special attention to metadata fields that may contain author names or company information
Check for hidden layers that may contain sensitive content not visible in the rendered PDF
Use the clean option after scanning to automatically remove detected risks
What types of privacy risks does it detect?
The scanner detects metadata, PII, hidden content, JavaScript, external links, revision history, and embedded files
Can it automatically fix detected issues?
Yes, after scanning you can opt to automatically remove all detected privacy risks
Is the scanning process secure?
All scanning is performed in your browser and no data is transmitted to external servers
Does it work with encrypted PDFs?
Yes, you can scan encrypted PDFs by providing the password for analysis