Every time you save a Microsoft Word document, all sorts of extra data, known as “metadata” are embedded in your document. This data can include:
- Hidden Revision Logs
- A Unique, Identifying GUID
- Comments, Keywords, Subjects, and other properties
- Recent Hyperlinks
- Last Saved Date
- Last Edited By Information
- Last Printed Date
- Revision Count
- Total Editing Time
- and more…
So when you send your documents to your friends or someone else, you may be sending potentially embarrassing or sensitive data from your documents. Therefore, you might want to remove such data before your documents get into someone hands.
Doc Scrubber is a free Windows application that allows you to remove metadata from Word documents. Doc Scrubber first analyzes Word document to show what metadata it contains, in a report. If there is any potential embarrassing data that you want to remove, click the “Scrub” button to scrub the document of the metadata that you prefer.
If you have lot of documents to scrub, you don’t have to scrub them one by one. Doc Scrubber allows you to scrub multiple documents in a folder at a time, saving you time and effort.
Doc Scrubber is compatible with Word 97, 2000 and XP documents.
