EXIF Remover
Strip EXIF, GPS and other hidden metadata from a photo by re-encoding it in the browser.
Strip metadata
Re-encoding an image through a canvas rebuilds the pixels and carries nothing else along, so the EXIF block with the camera, the capture time and the GPS position is left behind. The picture is processed on this device.
Result
Original—
Clean—
History for this tool
The most recent data you entered in this tool, stored only in this browser.
Save what you type here, in this browser? Your work would go into this browser's local storage, so a refresh or a trip to another tool does not wipe it. You also get a short list of previous entries under the form, each one restorable with a click. Nothing is ever uploaded, and there is no account.
Being straight about the trade-off: anything kept there can be read by anyone who can use this browser profile, and by any script that later runs on this site. A tool page can hold a private key, a password or a signed token. Saving is convenient; it is not private.
About this tool
A photo carries more than the picture: the camera model, the time it was taken, the software that saved it and often the exact place on the map. Re-encoding the pixels through a canvas rebuilds the image without any of that, so what you share carries only what you can see.
Questions
- Does re-encoding change how the picture looks?
- It redraws the same pixels, so it looks the same to the eye. A JPEG is saved again at the chosen quality, which costs a little sharpness; choosing PNG or a high quality keeps that to a minimum.
- Why does the file sometimes get bigger?
- The original may have been compressed very hard or stored as a smaller size. Re-encoding at a high quality can produce more bytes than you started with, and the change line shows that rather than hiding it.
- Is the metadata really gone?
- Yes. The output is written fresh from the canvas, and a canvas only holds pixels, so EXIF, GPS, XMP and any embedded thumbnail have no way to come along.