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Remove metadata from a file
Drop anything — a photo, a PDF, a Word document, a video, a song. The format is worked out from the bytes, you are shown what it is carrying, and you decide whether to remove it. Nothing is uploaded, which on this page is not a convenience but the entire point.
Up to 100 files at once. Mixed formats are fine.
They convert one after another and download together as a ZIP.
Remove metadata by file type
- JPGRemove EXIF dataSomeone about to publish or send a photograph who has realised it carries more than the picture — and who does not want to upload it somewhere to find out how much.
- JPGRemove GPS location from a photoSomeone who has just realised their photographs record where they were taken, usually before selling something online or posting a picture of their home.
- PDFRemove PDF metadataSomeone sending a PDF outside their organisation who does not want it to name the person, the software or the template it came from.
- DOCXRemove Word document metadataSomebody sending a document to a client, a court or a counterparty who does not want it to name the colleague who last saved it or the template it was built from.
- XLSXRemove Excel metadataSomebody circulating a spreadsheet — a budget, a model, a price list — who does not want it to name the author or the organisation it was built in.
- PPTXRemove PowerPoint metadataSomebody sending a deck outside their company — to a client, an investor or a conference — who does not want it to name the author, the template or the hours spent on it.
- MP4Remove video metadataSomebody publishing or sending a video who does not want it to carry the device, the date or the location it was recorded at.
- MP3Remove audio metadataSomebody sharing a recording — a demo, an interview, a voice memo — who does not want it to carry tags, cover art or the name of whoever recorded it.
Why this one has to run on your own machine
Every other tool on this site is faster in your browser. This one is only coherent there. Uploading a photograph to a server so that it can remove the record of where you took it means the server now has the photograph and the location — the disclosure you were trying to prevent has already happened, and you are trusting a promise about what happens next.
Nothing here is sent anywhere. You can confirm it the way you would confirm anything else: open the network tab of your browser's developer tools and watch, or disconnect from the network entirely and use the page anyway. It works.
About “file properties”
If you arrived looking for a way to remove Windows file properties, this page is the closest honest answer. The properties Explorer shows come from two different places: some are read out of the file itself — the author of a document, the camera that took a photo — and those are exactly what this removes.
The rest are not in the file at all. Created and modified timestamps belong to the file system, and the “this file came from another computer” marker is an alternate data stream attached alongside it. A web page cannot touch either, and any tool claiming otherwise in a browser is describing something it did not do. Both are reset anyway when a file is downloaded, emailed or copied to a different disk.
What removing metadata is not
It is not redaction. Text hidden under a black rectangle in a PDF is still text. Tracked changes and comments in a Word document are content rather than properties and survive, with their authors' names attached. An image cropped inside PowerPoint keeps the whole original picture and merely displays part of it. Hidden sheets in a spreadsheet stay hidden and stay readable.
None of those are metadata, none of them are removed here, and a tool that let you believe otherwise would be worse than no tool at all. Each page says which of these apply to its own format.