Wipe Metadata From Document — Free Browser Cleaner

Documents shared as PDF attachments or JPEG scans can carry hidden metadata—author names, creation times, software versions, and GPS from phone photos of paper. To wipe metadata from document images before sending, start with the JPEG or PNG export in MetadataWipe.

Because MetadataWipe runs locally, scanned IDs, invoices, and homework photos are processed on your device without upload to a remote cleaning service. Export a fresh copy, verify the metadata check, then attach the cleaned file.

How to use MetadataWipe in 4 steps

1. Export or scan to JPEG/PNG. Save your document page as a JPEG or PNG, or photograph it with your phone and transfer the image file.
2. Open MetadataWipe. Go to the MetadataWipe homepage and load the document image—drag and drop works too.
3. Wipe embedded metadata. Review detected tags, then let MetadataWipe create a browser-generated copy with typical EXIF blocks removed.
4. Download and send. Save the cleaned file, confirm sensitive tags are gone, then email or upload the document image.

About Wipe Metadata From Document

PDF documents can embed author, title, and modification metadata separate from page content—that often requires a PDF-specific workflow such as HidePDF for redaction needs. When your document is a JPEG scan or phone photo of paperwork, EXIF may still record where and when the picture was taken. Wipe metadata from document images before share so location and device tags do not leak alongside the visible text.

Support tickets, insurance claims, and school forms frequently travel as image attachments. Recipients can download the original and inspect metadata even when the preview looks like a flat scan. Local cleaning closes that gap for JPEG and PNG document exports.

MetadataWipe draws the scan to a canvas and exports a new file without typical photo metadata blocks. It is intended for everyday privacy—not legal redaction of visible text. Combine cleaned images with PDF tools when you need both content redaction and metadata removal.

Hidden tags on document photos versus PDF properties

A “document” in email is often not a PDF internals problem. It is a phone photograph of an invoice, a homework sheet, an ID, or a letter—JPEG or PNG with the same EXIF as any snapshot: GPS if Location Services were on, camera make/model, DateTimeOriginal, sometimes IPTC. Wiping metadata from that document means stripping those image tags so a claims adjuster or a teacher who saves the attachment does not also get a pin to your house. MetadataWipe is built for that image: local canvas export of JPEG/PNG, no server upload. It does not rewrite PDF Author, Title, or Creator, and it does not redact the account number printed on the paper. Visible content stays. Headers go.

When the attachment really is a PDF, document properties are a PDF-tool job. Author names from Word, company names, and Creator Tool versions live in the Info dictionary and XMP. Use a PDF sanitizer for that wrapper. If you also need black boxes over text, use a redaction product such as HidePDF. This MetadataWipe page exists because people photograph paperwork. Be precise: clean the scan or photo here; sanitize PDF properties elsewhere. Embedded JPEGs inside a PDF still need the image pass before you bind them, or an extractor will recover GPS from “page 2.”

Scanner TIFFs and multi-page PDFs follow the same split already described on the TIFF and PDF guides: export a JPEG/PNG for the image layer, wipe that layer, then deal with the document wrapper. Homework photos taken in a bedroom with GPS on are the everyday failure mode this tool addresses.

How to wipe EXIF from a scan or phone photo of paper

Start with a raster. If you only have a PDF and no page images, export or photograph pages first—or skip to a PDF sanitizer if Properties are the only leak.

1. Capture or export each page as JPEG or PNG. For a phone photo of paper, transfer the image (AirDrop, cable, Files) rather than relying on a chat preview.
2. Open the MetadataWipe homepage and load the document image. Confirm GPS, camera, and time tags if they are present.
3. Wipe in the browser. Save the -metadatawipe copy. Re-check that location and device fields are gone.
4. If the page still shows secrets in the pixels (full account numbers, a child’s full name you meant to hide), redact those pixels in an editor or PDF redactor. MetadataWipe will not do that.
5. Send the cleaned raster, or assemble a PDF from cleaned stills and then sanitize PDF properties on the combined file.

IDs, medical bills, and tax paperwork are high-sensitivity pixels. Local processing avoids a remote “document cleaner” holding the scan. It does not make a JPEG of a passport safe to post in a public forum. Combine tag wipe with visible redaction and a careful audience.

Paperwork shares that still carry a GPS pin

An insurance claim photo of a receipt. You snap the paper on the kitchen table. EXIF records home GPS. The adjuster’s archive keeps originals. Wipe the JPEG before the claim portal. The receipt text is still in the image; that is intended. The house pin does not need to travel with it.

Homework or permission slips sent to a school portal. Parents photograph packets. Location Services was on from the weekend. A cleaned PNG still shows the assignment; it should not show the family’s evening whereabouts. Strip tags locally, then attach.

A KYC or HR packet of photographed IDs. Compliance teams store files for years. Device model plus GPS is extra identity surface on top of the ID itself. Wipe EXIF. Cover pixels you are not required to send (beyond this tool). If the packet is a PDF merge, sanitize Author as well in PDF software—MetadataWipe will not touch that dictionary.

Document-wipe mistakes that leave the original tagged

Expecting MetadataWipe to erase text on the page. It will not. Account numbers remain visible until you redact pixels or use a PDF black-box tool.

Mailing the PDF and believing the photo tool already ran. PDF properties and image EXIF are different. Open Properties. Extract a page image and inspect EXIF. Finish both if both exist.

Cleaning a copy, then attaching the Camera roll original because the thumbnails match. Portals pick the tagged JPEG. Attach from the download named with -metadatawipe after you have inspected it.

Scanning to PDF in the copier app, skipping JPEG, and never sanitizing Properties. The wrapper still says Author = the copier account. Use PDF sanitization for that path; use this homepage when you actually have a JPEG or PNG of the page.

Related guides

Start with remove EXIF from scanned documents, then explore:

• Remove EXIF Data From Scanned Document
• Remove Metadata From PDF