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Metadata checker: see what your files give away
Drop in a photo, PDF or Word, Excel or PowerPoint file. You get a plain-English list of what it reveals, sorted by risk. Then remove what can be removed, and we read the cleaned copy again to show you what is gone.
JPEG · PNG · WebP · HEIC · AVIF · TIFF · PDF · DOCX · XLSX · PPTX
Or drop a file here, or paste an image.
Your file is read by this page, inside your browser. It is never uploaded.
What the checker looks for
| Group | What it can reveal | Typical fields |
|---|---|---|
| [GPS] | Where a photo was taken: a home, a school, a workplace | GPS position, altitude, camera direction, city |
| [ID] | Who made or edited the file | Author, last modified by, camera owner, company, comment authors |
| [DEV] | Which device made it, and whether two files came from the same one | Camera serial number, phone model, lens |
| [TIME] | When it was made, and the time zone | Date taken, created, last saved, GPS time |
| [HIST] | How it was edited, and earlier versions still inside | Software, edit history, PDF revisions, tracked changes |
| [TEXT] | Words and previews you can't see on screen | Comments, descriptions, embedded thumbnails, extra images |
| [C2PA] | Labels about AI generation and provenance | Content Credentials, IPTC digital source type, AI prompt text |
How the re-check works
- The checker reads the file in your browser and lists every field it understands, with a short note on why it matters.
- When you choose Remove metadata and re-check, it builds a cleaned copy. For JPEG, PNG and WebP it removes metadata blocks and copies the image data byte for byte, so the picture is not re-compressed.
- It then analyzes the cleaned copy from scratch, as if you had dropped in a new file, and compares the two. You see what was removed, anything that could not be removed, and anything kept on purpose, such as the tag that keeps a photo upright.
Checks for specific jobs
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[STRIP] JPEG PNG WEBP PDF DOCX
Metadata remover
Clean a file before you post or send it, with proof of what was removed.
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[GPS] GPSLatitude GPSLongitude
Find or remove a photo's location
See whether a photo carries a GPS position, where it points, and take it out.
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[PDF] /Info /Metadata %%EOF
PDF metadata
Author, software, XMP and earlier saved versions hidden inside a PDF.
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[OOXML] docProps/core.xml
Word, Excel and PowerPoint metadata
Author, company, editing time, comments, tracked changes and photos inside documents.
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[C2PA] DigitalSourceType
AI image metadata and Content Credentials
Look for AI-generation labels and provenance records, and what they can't prove.
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[REF] 50+ fields
Metadata field reference
Plain-English meaning and privacy risk for each field the checker reports.
What it can't do
- It can't see what is in the picture or on the page. A street sign, a reflection or a name in the text is not metadata. Look at the content too.
- Missing metadata proves nothing. If a photo has no GPS position, it may have been removed by an app or a website. If an image has no AI label, it may still be AI-generated.
- Some things need the original app. Word comments and tracked changes, PDF annotations and attachments are reported but not removed. HEIC, AVIF and TIFF files can be checked but not cleaned here.
- Video is not supported yet.
Is it really local?
Yes. The page loads its code once, then reads your file with your browser's own file APIs. The site's security policy only allows the page to talk to metadatachecker.com itself and to Cloudflare's privacy-focused page-view counter, and neither receives your file. If you want to check, open your browser's developer tools, go to the Network tab, and drop a file in: you will see no upload. The only request the checker itself makes is an anonymous count of the action (for example "checked a JPEG"), with no file contents, names or values. Details are in the privacy policy.