Remove Metadata
See what a photo, PDF, document, song or video says about you, and strip it, in your browser. Choose what to keep; the picture, pages and sound stay exactly as they were. Nothing is uploaded.
Drop files to check for metadata
JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, HEIC, TIFF, SVG, PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenDocument, MP3, FLAC, WAV, MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM and more. Several at once.
About this tool
Shows what a file says about you and lets you take it out, in your browser: the camera, GPS position and date in a photo, the author and application in a PDF or Word document, the artist and encoder in a song, the device and location in a video. Every item found is listed with its value and a box, so you can see it before it goes and keep the few that help (a picture's orientation, its colour profile, a soundtrack's language). Nearly every format is rewritten losslessly: the picture, pages and sound are copied byte for byte and only the container around them changes. A HEIC, AVIF or TIFF, which cannot be edited in place, is decoded and saved again, and the page says so.
How to use it
- 1Drop one file or several. Each is read where it lands and its metadata listed, grouped: EXIF, GPS, XMP, document properties, tags.
- 2Look through the list. Everything removable is ticked except what is kept by default; untick anything you want to keep, or tick the defaults to remove those too.
- 3Press Remove. Download the cleaned copies one by one or as a zip, or send them on to another tool.
Good to know
What is removed, by format
JPEG: EXIF (camera, dates, settings, maker note, thumbnail), GPS, XMP, IPTC and Photoshop blocks, comments, unknown application segments and anything after the end-of-image marker, such as the video of a motion photo. PNG: text chunks, XMP, EXIF, the last-modified time, private chunks. WebP and GIF: EXIF, XMP and comments. SVG: comments, the metadata element, Inkscape and Illustrator editor data. PDF: the Info dictionary, XMP, the document ID, application private data, and the author and dates on comments. Word, Excel and PowerPoint: the core, application and custom properties, the thumbnail, the folder a workbook was saved in, Word's revision-session ids and attached template. Audio and video: every file, track and chapter tag; cover art and chapters if you tick them.
What stays, and why
A few items are unticked by default because removing them changes how the file looks rather than what it reveals: EXIF Orientation, without which a portrait photo shows sideways; the ICC colour profile, without which a wide-gamut photo goes dull; a track's language, which players use to pick the right audio; chapters and cover art. None names a person. Tick them if you want them gone. The file is read into memory by your own browser and processed there, so it is never uploaded and never reaches a server.
What it cannot reach
The authors of comments and tracked changes in a Word document are listed but left, since they are part of the comments themselves; use Word's Document Inspector. A JPEG's multi-picture index, which points at a gain map by its position in the file, cannot survive a rewrite and is always removed. A maker note can be kept but may not read correctly afterwards, for the same reason. An encrypted PDF is refused; a signed one is rewritten and its signature breaks. Text drawn in a picture is part of the picture.