iLovePDF reads as a downstream re-saver — it surfaces disproportionately on documents whose original Creator was a different, often institutional, application.
Back to all statisticsForensic verdictBased on this tool’s share of the HTPBE? corpus.
Corpus profile
iLovePDF is a popular online PDF editor and toolkit (merge, split, edit, fill, sign). It is consumer-facing and operates by re-saving an uploaded PDF after the requested operation.
iLovePDF as Producer means the document was uploaded, processed, and re-emitted by the iLovePDF service. When iLovePDF is the latest Producer on a document whose original Creator was an institutional source (a bank statement, a payslip, a utility bill), the producer/creator mismatch is a marker we surface — alongside whatever incremental-update or signature-removal evidence the file carries.
Role in the workflow
Every PDF carries a Creator (the application that produced the original document) and a Producer (the engine that wrote the PDF). The same tool can appear in either slot, with very different modification profiles.
Name fingerprints
Different version strings and spellings observed for iLovePDF in the wild. All are merged into the same canonical profile.
Why variants matter
The same tool publishes itself under 2 different metadata strings — version bumps, locale tags, build IDs. We canonicalize them so the corpus reflects one identity, not noise.
Distributions
The PDF versions iLovePDF writes when acting as Producer, and the other tools that appear in the same documents.
Most output is PDF 1.7 (70% of files where iLovePDF is the Producer).
Microsoft Word sits upstream in 81% of cases — read this row as “what kinds of documents end up routed through iLovePDF.”
Related profiles
Other tools that frequently share metadata with iLovePDF in the same documents. Each card links to its own forensic profile.
Long tail
Smaller cuts of the iLovePDF corpus — useful context, but treat each row as a single data point rather than a strong signal.
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