What this tool does
- GPS position, camera, serial number, date, software: removed from the file, not hidden.
- No re-encoding: the bytes of the image are copied as they are. The cleaned photo is the original photo, only lighter, and a test proves it at every release.
- What stays: the display header and the colour profile. Removing them would change the colours or the print size.
- Several images at once: past one, everything leaves in a ZIP archive.
- You are told what was removed, block by block, and how many bytes went.
What it does not do: Cleaning removes the standardized metadata blocks of a JPEG or a PNG. This is not anonymity: a photo stays recognizable, sensor noise can identify a camera, and a face or a number plate stay readable. For those, you need to redact. RAW and HEIC files are not handled here.
Nothing is uploaded. Cut your network connection once this page has loaded: the tool keeps working. How to check it yourself.
The other tools
- Merge PDFs: Several files, one document, in the order you decide.
- Organize pages: Reorder, rotate, delete, duplicate: the whole plan.
- Extract pages: Pick pages, take them out into a document of their own.
- Delete pages: Remove pages while looking at them; they are not left under the file you get.