How to use
Drop photos, PDFs or Word / Excel / PowerPoint files, or click “Choose files” (several at once). “Try a sample” loads a photo with a location, a docx and a PDF.
Use “View” to see whether EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC and ICC are present and what they say. Authors, company names, locations, device serial numbers and local paths are highlighted in yellow.
To fix something, use “Edit” for PDF and Office, “Fix dates” for photo timestamps that are off, and “GPS” for locations. After writing, the file is re-read and verified, and a before/after diff is shown.
In “Compare”, pick two files and only the differing items are listed — handy for checking an edited file against its original.
Download the result (a ZIP plus report.csv for several photos). “Copy” turns the item list into text or JSON.
What it does
Built for looking, fixing and comparing
The existing EXIF & GPS Remover and PDF Metadata Cleaner only delete. Metadata Studio reads what is there, changes just the fields you pick and compares before and after. For wiping everything it points you to those tools.
Date fixing rewrites in place
EXIF dates are fixed 19-character strings, so they are overwritten where they sit — the file length and every other offset stay put. For a wrong time-zone setting you can shift OffsetTime by the same amount so the capture moment in UTC is preserved.
GPS removal reaches the hiding places
The EXIF GPS block is zero-filled and its entry closed up, GPS inside the embedded thumbnail is cleaned, and GPS properties in XMP are blanked. Other EXIF offsets and the thumbnail are left intact.
Re-read and verified after every write
For JPEG, everything outside EXIF / XMP (image data, quantisation tables, ICC, IPTC) is checked to be byte-identical and the file size unchanged. PDF and Office values are read back and compared with what was written.
Personal and location data in yellow
Author, last-modified-by, company, device serial numbers, IPTC place names, local paths (C:\Users\…) and e-mail addresses stand out in the table so you notice them before sharing.
PDF edits keep XMP consistent
Changing only the PDF Info can leave XMP with the old values. You choose to regenerate, remove or keep XMP when editing; the default rebuilds XMP from the new values.
Use cases
- Shift the capture time of trip photos taken with a camera clock left on UTC by +9 hours, all at once
- Check and fix the author, company and last-modified-by of a PDF or Word file before sending it to a client
- Remove only the shooting location from a photo before posting it, keeping everything else
- Compare a file before and after editing to see exactly which metadata changed
- Replace a PDF title that is really a file path (C:\Users\…) with a proper title
Supported formats
View
Edit
Output
Capability matrix
| Feature | Support | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Show presence and content of EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC and ICC in JPEG, PNG and WebP | Supported | — |
| View HEIC, AVIF and TIFF | Partial | EXIF and GPS only; XMP, IPTC and ICC are not read |
| Show PDF document info and XMP | Supported | Password-protected PDFs can’t be read |
| Show core.xml, app.xml and custom.xml of docx, xlsx, pptx | Supported | — |
| Highlight personal and location items | Supported | Author, company, GPS, serial numbers, paths, e-mail addresses… |
| Edit PDF document info (XMP regenerated / removed / kept) | Supported | Page content is never changed |
| Edit Office author, last modified by, title, created / modified and company | Supported | Other parts are copied byte for byte |
| Bulk-fix JPEG EXIF dates (± time, exact date, OffsetTime follow-up) | Supported | Rewritten in place; pixel data unchanged |
| Remove only the GPS from a JPEG | Supported | Also inside the thumbnail and in XMP |
| Re-read after writing and show a before/after diff | Supported | — |
| Compare the metadata of two files | Supported | — |
| Copy or save items as text / JSON | Supported | — |
| Show the location on a map | Partial | No map is loaded: coordinates plus an “open in a map app” link that contacts the web only when clicked |
| Fix dates held in XMP or IPTC | Not supported | Only EXIF dates are rewritten (a warning appears when XMP / IPTC carry dates) |
| Edit images other than JPEG (PNG, WebP, HEIC) | Not supported | View only. Use EXIF & GPS Remover or convert to JPEG for locations |
| Edit EXIF items other than dates and GPS (make, model, artist…) | Not supported | — |
| Add a date to a JPEG that has none in EXIF | Not supported | Only existing dates and OffsetTime are rewritten |
| Audio / video metadata (ID3, MP4 tags…) | Not supported | Only the name and type (MIME) are shown |
| Legacy .doc / .xls / .ppt and OpenDocument (.odt…) | Not supported | — |
| Strip all metadata at once | Not supported | Use the dedicated EXIF & GPS Remover / PDF Metadata Cleaner |
Limits & notes
- Up to 100 MB per file, 100 files and 500 MB in total per batch. Files are processed one at a time in a background thread and can be canceled.
- Date fixing and GPS removal work on JPEG only. Edited files never overwrite the original; they download as new files under the same name.
- Date fixing only rewrites EXIF dates and OffsetTime that already exist and never creates new ones. A correction that would leave years 1–9999 is skipped for that field.
- The operating system’s own modified time cannot be set; downloads get the time of the download.
- Regenerating PDF XMP drops everything in it other than the document info (edit history etc.).
- A PDF is rewritten when saved: digital signatures become invalid, and old revisions left by incremental updates (earlier document info etc.) are not carried into the output.
- GPS in JPEGs embedded after the main JPEG (e.g. motion-photo previews) is removed too, but other embedded data (such as the video part) is not inspected.
- Office files are repacked, but every part other than docProps stays byte-identical. Password-protected or damaged ZIPs are not handled.
- What is visible in the picture (signs, faces, documents) and personal data written in the body text are out of scope.
Privacy & safety
Reading, analysing, rewriting and zipping all happen in your browser. Files and locations are never sent to or stored on a server, and no map is loaded. The “open in a map app” links open OpenStreetMap or Google Maps with the coordinates only when you click them; nothing is sent before that.
FAQ
Can I change the date a photo was taken?
What is OffsetTime, and when should I choose “shift by the same amount”?
Does removing only the GPS change image quality or other data?
I changed a PDF’s author but Acrobat still shows the old name — why?
Will changing a Word file’s author or company damage the document?
Why can’t I see the location on a map?
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