AI Metadata Cleaner (Guide #8): 100% Local EXIF, GPS, XMP & C2PA Metadata Remover#

Photos, videos, PDFs, Camera RAW files, and AI-generated media routinely contain hidden metadata packets: camera EXIF serial numbers, exact GPS coordinates, XMP editing history, ComfyUI/Stable Diffusion generation prompts, and cryptographic C2PA/JUMBF Content Credentials manifests. Uploading private files to a remote server just to remove metadata exposes your files unnecessarily.

By combining the read-only EXIF, GPS, XMP and C2PA provenance marker inspector with the local browser AI image, video, PDF and RAW metadata cleaner, creators can inspect and strip hidden container metadata 100% locally in their browser without uploading a single byte.

Supported Formats & WebAssembly Engine#

1. Images, Camera RAW, Video & PDF#

• Images: Cleans JPEG, PNG (tEXt/iTXt/zTXt/caBX chunks), WebP, AVIF, and HEIC files.
• Camera RAW (LibRaw WASM): Strips EXIF, GPS, and XMP blocks from DNG, CR2, NEF, and ARW files locally.
• Videos (FFmpeg.wasm) & PDFs (pdf-lib): Scrubs MP4, MOV, and WebM container tags (including Veo, Sora, Kling, and Runway metadata) and PDF document properties.

2. Honest Technical Boundaries#

• What It Removes: All file-header and container-level metadata (EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC, C2PA/JUMBF manifests, and AI prompt chunks) is removed locally in browser memory.
• What It Does Not Claim: Container cleaning does not alter invisible frequency-domain pixel watermarks (such as Google SynthID) and does not dictate how third-party social networks apply automated labels.

Step-by-Step Sanitization Workflow#

1. Open the read-only EXIF, GPS, XMP and C2PA provenance marker inspector in any desktop or mobile browser.
2. Drop up to 20 images, RAW photos, videos, or PDFs into the local processing queue.
3. Inspect the detected metadata tags, run instant local sanitization, and download clean files individually or as a batch ZIP archive.