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Free Metadata Remover

Strip hidden metadata — EXIF/GPS location, author names, and edit history — from photos, PDFs, and Office documents. Lossless and 100% in your browser.

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Your files never leave your device. All processing happens locally in your browser.

Drop in photos (JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC), PDFs, or Office files (DOCX/XLSX/PPTX). You first see what each file reveals (camera, date, GPS, author), then this tool removes it — EXIF/GPS location, author and software names, comments, tracked-change authors, preview thumbnails — without re-compressing your images, so the visible content is untouched. Only the fields listed are targeted; other embedded data (e.g. ICC color profiles) may remain, and text inside the document itself (headers, comments you wrote) is not edited. Everything happens in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

Want to see every metadata field in a photo? Open the Photo EXIF Viewer · HEIC to JPG Converter

Common uses

  • Remove GPS Location from PhotosStrip the hidden GPS coordinates from photos before posting them publicly.
  • Clean Photos Before Selling OnlineRemove location and device metadata from listing photos for marketplaces.
  • Remove Author Info from a PDF or DocumentClear author, company, and edit-history metadata before sharing a document.
  • Protect Sources by Scrubbing FilesStrip identifying metadata from documents and images before publishing them.
  • Anonymize Files Before SharingRemove hidden tracking metadata from any photo or document you share.

How It Works

Files quietly carry hidden metadata: photos store GPS coordinates and your camera/phone model; PDFs and Office documents store author names, the software used, and edit history. Most "metadata remover" sites upload your files to do this — defeating the purpose. This one works entirely in your browser.

  1. 1
    You drop in files
    Mix photos (JPG/PNG), PDFs, and Office documents (DOCX/XLSX/PPTX). They're read into your browser's memory — never uploaded.
  2. 2
    Metadata segments are parsed out
    For images, the EXIF/XMP/IPTC segments and comment chunks are removed directly from the file structure — the image data is left byte-for-byte intact, so there is zero quality loss.
  3. 3
    Documents are stripped clean
    PDFs have their title, author, producer, and XMP metadata cleared via pdf-lib. Office files (which are ZIP archives) have their core, app, and custom property files wiped via JSZip.
  4. 4
    You download the clean files
    Grab each file, or the whole batch as a ZIP. A summary shows exactly what was removed from each one.

This is privacy tooling, so it would be self-defeating to upload your files. Everything runs locally — ideal for journalists protecting sources, anyone sharing photos publicly without revealing their home location, or professionals sending documents without leaking internal author and company names.

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