Developed by DLM

About MetaCleaner

A high-performance privacy engine designed to permanently purge tracking signatures and metadata from personal files.

What is Metadata?

Metadata is "data about data," embedded invisibly inside files by cameras, editors, and operating systems during export.

  • Photos: GPS coordinates, device serial numbers, lens models, and timestamps.
  • Documents: Author names, corporate accounts, editing duration, and network paths.
  • Media: Embedded comments, artist handles, and leak tracking watermarks.

Why Remove Metadata?

Sharing an uncleaned photo or document exposes your home location, workplace, and device identity to third parties and web scrapers.

MetaCleaner purges all identifiers while preserving 100% of your visual and functional content with zero degradation.

Engine Architecture

  • Images & Vectors: Pillow with EXIF orientation auto-transposition (JPEG, PNG, WEBP, TIFF, HEIC, SVG).
  • Documents & Sheets: Stream parser purging docProps/core.xml and app.xml (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, ODT, ODS).
  • PDF Files: pypdf page rebuilder with complete catalog-level XML/XMP stream deletion.
  • Text & Markdown: Zero-width invisible watermark detector and stripper.
  • Media: Tag container cleaners for MP3, MP4, WAV, FLAC, and MKV.