Strip Image Metadata (EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP)
Every photo your phone takes embeds when, where, with what camera, and (often) the author's name. Office documents leak author / company / revision history in similar ways. MiniMax Converter wipes all of that with one click, locally, on the file before you share it.
What gets stripped
Images: EXIF (camera model, ISO, focal length, …), IPTC (caption, keywords, copyright), XMP (Adobe metadata), GPS (location, altitude). Office Open XML (DOCX / XLSX / PPTX): docProps (author, company, last modified by, revision number). OpenDocument (ODT / ODS / ODP): meta.xml (author, creation/edit times). PDFs: Title / Author / Subject / Keywords. EPUB: dublin-core metadata. Audio: ID3 / Vorbis / etc. tags.
How to use it
- Drop one or more files onto MiniMax Converter.
- Click the Strip metadata button (appears whenever at least one dropped file is in a metadata-bearing format).
- Confirm. The metadata is wiped in place.
Why it matters
Sharing a photo on Twitter can leak your home GPS coordinates. Sending a DOCX to a client leaks every revision your team ever made. Posting a PDF reveals the document title even when you renamed the file. Strip Metadata wipes all of this before you share.
Questions and answers
Does it touch image pixels?
No — only metadata. The image bytes are unchanged. Output is byte-for-byte the same except for the metadata fields.
What about Office docs — does it strip "track changes" history?
Yes — the zip-rewrite pass nukes docProps.xml and core.xml. Revisions stored as tracked-change markup inside the document body still survive; for those, use the Flatten DOCX changes tool separately.
Can I do this for a whole folder at once?
Yes — drop a folder and Strip Metadata processes every metadata-bearing file inside.
GPS-only mode?
Yes — a separate Strip GPS only option leaves all other metadata intact and just removes location info. Useful when you want to keep camera EXIF (for photography metadata) but not location.
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