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Invoice Metadata Extractor
See what an invoice PDF says about itself: author, software, dates, pages and security.
Drop an invoice PDF here
Quick Tool Overview
The Invoice Metadata Extractor reads what an invoice PDF says about itself — author, creator, producer, creation and modification dates, version, page sizes, encryption and whether it has a text layer — and is clear about what none of that proves.
- What it does
- Reads a PDF’s own metadata
- You give it
- An invoice PDF
- You get back
- Document info, pages and security
- Best for
- Checking a suspicious invoice
About the Invoice Metadata Extractor
Every PDF carries a record of itself: who made it, with which software, when it was created and when it was last changed. On an invoice that record occasionally matters a great deal. An invoice dated March that was created in June, or produced by an image editor rather than an accounting system, is worth a second look.
Drop a PDF and this reads the document information dictionary and the XMP metadata: title, author, subject, keywords, creator, producer, creation and modification dates, the PDF version, the number of pages and their sizes, whether it is encrypted, and whether it carries a text layer at all.
It also says what it cannot tell you, which is most things: metadata is trivially editable, an absent field means nothing, and a matching date proves only that the dates match. Use it as one signal among several, not as evidence. The file is read in your browser.
Key features of the Invoice Metadata Extractor
Document info and XMP
Both metadata blocks, where present.
Dates compared
Created against modified, and against the invoice date.
Page details
Count, sizes, orientation and text layer.
Honest limits
Metadata is editable, and absence proves nothing.
Private
Parsed in your browser.
How to use the Invoice Metadata Extractor
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Drop the PDF
Any size; only the structure is read.
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Read the document info
Author, producer, dates and version.
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Check the pages
Count, sizes, orientation and whether there is text.
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Note what it cannot prove
Metadata is editable, and absence means nothing.
Frequently asked questions
No. It can raise a question — a creation date long after the invoice date, a producer that is an image editor, a modification date after it was sent — but every field can be edited, and plenty of honest invoices have odd metadata.
The creator is the application the document was authored in; the producer is the library that wrote the PDF. An invoice from accounting software usually names both.
Many tools strip metadata, and some privacy settings remove it deliberately. An empty field is not suspicious on its own.
No. It is parsed in your browser.
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