PowerPoint Metadata Inspector
Drop a .pptx to reveal its hidden metadata — author, company, hidden slides, speaker notes, comments, embedded files, and external links — with a privacy-risk score. Nothing is uploaded.
What's Hidden Inside a PowerPoint
A .pptx file looks like a single document, but it's actually a ZIP archive of XML parts and media — see the anatomy of a .pptx for a full breakdown. Beyond the slides you see, it carries a surprising amount of information that never appears in PowerPoint's normal view:
- Document properties — the author's name, your company, the manager, the title and keywords, the creation and last-modified dates, the revision count, and the total time the file has been open for editing.
- Hidden slides — slides marked "hidden" don't appear in a slideshow but ship with the file and are trivial to reveal.
- Speaker notes — often candid, internal, or unfinished.
- Reviewer comments — including the names (and, in modern files, the directory IDs or emails) of everyone who commented.
- Embedded media and files — images that may carry EXIF/GPS data, plus embedded spreadsheets and OLE objects that have their own metadata.
- External links — hyperlinks, including
file://and network-share paths that leak a local username or host. - Sensitivity labels, custom XML, macros, and signatures — organizational metadata that can reveal internal systems.
How to Use It
- Drop a
.pptx(or.pptm,.ppsx,.potx) into the upload area. - The tool parses the package locally and shows an Executive Summary with a privacy-risk score and counts.
- View the full report: document properties, statistics, a privacy inspection, embedded media, hidden content, external references, the AI-content signals, the Open XML package browser, and a final risk report.
- Export the report as TXT, HTML, or PDF.
Privacy and Limits
Everything runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded. The Executive Summary is free for everyone. A free account unlocks the full report and exports (one report per month, with a small SlideModel watermark); Pro removes both the watermark and the monthly limit.
Found something you want to remove?
This tool only inspects. To strip the author, company, comments, hidden slides, and other private data and download a clean copy, use the companion PowerPoint Metadata Remover — it's the natural next step, and it runs in your browser too.