Introducing Image Metadata Extractor: See (and Strip) What Your Photos Are Hiding
Every photo your phone or camera takes carries more than pixels. Tucked into the file itself is EXIF data — the camera model, lens, exposure settings, the exact date and time the shutter fired — and often GPS coordinates precise enough to place the shot on a map down to the building. Image Metadata Extractor reads all of it out in your browser, and if you'd rather it not travel with the file, strips it out and hands you a clean copy.
Why This Matters
Most people never think about metadata until it causes a problem: a photo posted online reveals a home address through its GPS tag, a freelancer's exported screenshot leaks the software and device it was made on, or a listing photo exposes more location detail than intended. None of this is visible by just looking at the image — you'd need to dig through the file's binary structure or trust a third-party site with your photo to find out what's in there. This tool does the digging locally, instantly, without sending the file anywhere.
What It Reads
Drop in a JPG, PNG, HEIC, WebP, or TIFF and the tool pulls out everything the file exposes:
- File info — dimensions, size, type, last-modified date.
- Camera — make, model, lens, aperture, ISO, focal length, exposure time, flash and orientation.
- Date & software — when the photo was taken, what software last touched it, copyright and artist tags.
- GPS — if coordinates are embedded, they're decoded and linked straight to a map, with a warning banner so it's impossible to miss.
- IPTC captions — headline, keywords, credit, and location fields used by stock photo and news workflows.
Anything left over — every raw tag the file carries — is available in a collapsible JSON dump, and a "Copy JSON" button grabs the whole thing for pasting elsewhere.
Strip and Download
Finding out what's hidden is only half the job. Once you've seen the metadata, a "Strip & Download" button re-draws the image onto a canvas and re-encodes it — canvas output carries no EXIF, GPS, or IPTC data by construction, so the download is a pixel-identical copy with nothing extra attached. Useful before posting a photo publicly, sending it to someone you don't want to hand your location to, or just cleaning up a batch of images before archiving them.
Fully Client-Side
Parsing happens with exifr, a metadata-parsing library that runs entirely in the browser — the image is never uploaded, and the stripped copy is generated locally with the Canvas API. If your photo has GPS coordinates in it, hspingal never sees them either.