Metadata is information about the document. This information is stored within the document itself; for example who created it, who edited it, what were the changes made, who else worked on it.  Metadata has the potential to embarrass or negatively impact a company's financial well-being. Recent high profile incidents in the UK and at the United Nations prove the point.

58 ways to protect documents - Metadata Assistant integrates into MS Office applications to cleanse documents directly within the application, or it can run as a standalone application.

Metadata Assistant cleanses 19 different metadata types in Word, 24 metadata types in Excel and 15 in PowerPoint! Harmful metadata is cleansed in just a few mouse clicks.

• Remove unwanted last 10 Authors
• Remove Document Path (location on pc/server)
• Remove hidden text Remove
• Redlining (Track Changes)
• Remove comments Remove Document Properties

E-mail integration - Metadata Assistant integrates into e-mail applications such as Groupwise, Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook to ensure that document metadata is analysed and removed from documents. This can be an automated process, or users can be prompted to act.

• Reminder before sending
• Prompt to clean Word, Excel and PowerPoint attachments
• Preserves Original

Other features

• Analyse versus Clean
• Security Choices (Low, Medium, High)
• Save Custom Settings
• Clean entire directories
• Includes Password Options

pdfDocs Desktop integration - Metadata Assistant integrates into pdfDocs Desktop to give you PDF creation, collation, annotation, redaction and document binding capability.

Document management system integration - Metadata Assistant integrates into the world's leading document management systems such as Hummingbird, Interwoven and WORLDOX.