Metadata Scrubber — Remove Hidden Data from Any File

Files quietly carry far more than their visible content. Photos store the exact GPS coordinates where they were taken, your camera/phone model, and the date & time. PDFs and Word/Excel/PowerPoint files embed the author\'s name, company, who last edited it, the total editing time, and revision count. Audio files carry tags. Metadata Scrubber surfaces all of it and removes it.

No. Everything runs in your browser with local code — your file and the cleaned copy never leave your device. That matters here especially: a document you\'re scrubbing for privacy is the last thing you\'d want to upload to a stranger\'s server first.

No — the visible content is untouched. For photos and audio the pixel/sound data is kept byte-for-byte; only the metadata blocks are removed. For PDFs and Office files the document is rewritten without the author/company/timestamp fields.

Photos — JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, HEIC/AVIF, GIF and PSD (EXIF incl. GPS & camera serial number, XMP, IPTC, ICC); SVG (RDF metadata, editor data, comments). Documents — PDF (Info dict + XMP); Microsoft Office, both modern (.docx/.xlsx/.pptx) and legacy OLE2 (.doc/.xls/.ppt — author, last-saved-by, company, manager); OpenDocument (.odt/.ods/.odp); EPUB; RTF; HTML; EPS/PostScript. Ebooks — EPUB and MOBI/Kindle (EXTH). 3D — glTF/GLB and STL (generator/header). Music — MIDI (text/copyright events). Other — ICC color profiles, OpenEXR (owner/comments/GPS), and .torrent files (created-by, creation date, comment — without touching the info-hash). Audio — MP3 (ID3), FLAC (Vorbis + cover art), WAV, AIFF, OGG/Opus, WMA and APE/WavPack/Musepack (APEv2). Video — MP4, MOV, WebM, AVI and WMV. Fonts — TTF/OTF (copyright, designer, foundry, license URLs). Medical — DICOM (patient name, ID, birth date, institution, referring physician, device serial — the pixels are untouched). Archives — GZIP (original filename + timestamp), ZIP (comment), TAR (per-entry owner, uid/gid, timestamps). For anything else, a generic scan finds and neutralizes embedded XMP/EXIF in place. Everything runs locally; most formats are handled natively at any size.

It still scans the raw bytes for embedded metadata that shows up inside all sorts of files — XMP packets in every form (xpacket, x:xmpmeta and rdf:RDF), EXIF blocks, and embedded GPS coordinates — and shows you what they contain. Removing them writes over just those bytes in place (same length), so the rest of the file is left byte-for-byte intact. If nothing is found, it tells you the file looks clean rather than guessing. (No scanner can be 100% for every proprietary binary format, but this catches the metadata standards that the vast majority of files actually use.)

Yes. Action-cam and drone videos embed a continuous GPS track (GoPro's GPMF telemetry, or DJI's on-screen GPS subtitles) that's separate from the single location point most tools strip. Metadata Scrubber detects that track and zeroes the GPS readings in place — your route, home launch point and timestamps are removed while the video, audio and motion (gyro/accelerometer) data stay intact.

A photo posted online with its EXIF intact can reveal the exact latitude/longitude of your home, school, or workplace to anyone who downloads it. Stripping location metadata before sharing is one of the simplest, highest-impact privacy habits.

Simply type your numbers and read the result, which refreshes the instant you change something. There is nothing to submit and nothing to wait for.

Yes to both. It is free with no sign-up, and once the page has loaded it keeps working even with no internet.

Nowhere — every calculation runs on your own device. Nothing you enter is uploaded, logged, or stored.