Metadata Remover

✨ Key Features

• Remove PDF metadata and embedded metadata streams
• Strip image EXIF/IPTC data (JPEG, PNG, WEBP, TIFF, HEIC/HEIF)
• Clear Office document properties for docx, pptx, xlsx
• Remove tags from common media files (audio/video)
• Small, single-file script: remover.py

📝 Supported file types

• PDF: .pdf
• Images: .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .tif, .tiff, .webp, .heic, .heif
• Office: .docx, .pptx, .xlsx
• OpenDocument variants: .odt, .ods, .odp
• Media: .mp4, .mov, .avi, .mp3, .wav, .m4a

🧰 Requirements

• 🐍 Python 3.8+
• 📦 See requirements.txt for dependencies

💾 Installation

Clone or copy the repository and install dependencies:

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Options

• -o, --overwrite : Overwrite the original file (use with caution).

🖼️Examples

• Clean a PDF and write a new file next to the original (default) (You can Drag and Drop Files in the CLI):

python remover.py report.pdf

• Clean and overwrite the original (destructive):

python remover.py secret.docx -o

⚖️ License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.