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EXIF Viewer and Stripper
Shows what a photo is carrying besides the picture, and writes a copy with that removed. The pixels are never re-encoded, so the stripped copy is byte-for-byte as sharp as the original.
The photo does not leave your browser.
It is read as bytes in this tab and nothing else. The page has no network
code, and the site's content security policy sets
connect-src 'none', so it could not upload the file even if
it tried. Nothing is put in the URL either — a photo's coordinates
are not something to leave in your history.
Photo
Drop a JPEG or PNG here, or choose a file.
Waiting for a photo
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Metadata bytes
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What was removed
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Metadata
How the stripping is done, and what survives it
A JPEG is a chain of marker segments; a PNG is a chain of chunks. This
tool copies that chain out and leaves the unwanted links behind. The
compressed image data is never touched, so the result is
pixel-identical to what you started with. Re-saving through a
canvas — what most tools do, and what this site's
format converter does — would also
remove the metadata, but it would recompress the picture and lose a
little quality every time.
Deliberately kept in JPEGs: APP0 (JFIF density) and APP14 (the Adobe colour-transform flag, without which some files decode with inverted colours). Quantisation and Huffman tables are the image.
Anything after the end-of-image marker is dropped and reported. Phones append things there — a short video for a motion photo, a depth map — and that content is invisible to viewers but travels with the file.
GPS coordinates are shown to six decimal places, about 0.11 m at the equator, which is finer than any consumer receiver is accurate to. Sizes use 1 KB = 1,024 bytes.
Deliberately kept in JPEGs: APP0 (JFIF density) and APP14 (the Adobe colour-transform flag, without which some files decode with inverted colours). Quantisation and Huffman tables are the image.
Anything after the end-of-image marker is dropped and reported. Phones append things there — a short video for a motion photo, a depth map — and that content is invisible to viewers but travels with the file.
GPS coordinates are shown to six decimal places, about 0.11 m at the equator, which is finer than any consumer receiver is accurate to. Sizes use 1 KB = 1,024 bytes.