Metadata Scrubber
What hidden metadata is — and why it matters
Photos and documents quietly carry data you never see. A phone photo can embed the exact GPS coordinates where it was taken, the device model, and a timestamp; a PDF often records the author’s name and the software that made it. Share the file and you share all of that too — which can reveal where you live, when you were somewhere, or who wrote a document you meant to send anonymously.
What this tool removes
For images it strips the EXIF block (including GPS location), camera maker-notes, IPTC/Photoshop data, and embedded comments, while keeping the colour profile so the picture still looks right. For PDFs it clears the document information — title, author, subject, keywords, creator, and producer — and removes the XMP metadata. The visible content is never changed.
Lossless and private by design
The metadata is removed by editing the file’s structure directly rather than re-saving the image, so a JPEG or PNG is never re-compressed — you get the same pixels, just without the hidden tags (which is why the cleaned file is slightly smaller). And because everything runs locally in your browser, the file and whatever it was hiding never leave your device.
Frequently asked questions
What metadata does it remove?
For photos, it strips EXIF (including GPS location), camera maker-notes, IPTC/Photoshop data, and comments. For PDFs, it clears the document info — title, author, subject, keywords, creator, and producer — plus the XMP metadata. Colour profiles and the actual pixels or pages are kept.
Does it reduce the image quality?
No. It removes the metadata by editing the file’s structure directly (byte surgery), so the image is never re-compressed — the pixels come out identical, just without the hidden data. That is why the cleaned file is a little smaller, not fuzzier.
Is my file uploaded?
No. Everything happens locally in your browser, so the photo or PDF — and whatever location or personal data was hidden in it — never leaves your device.
Which file types are supported?
JPEG and PNG images, and PDF documents, up to 100 MB.