metaclean is a small Ruby CLI that wraps ExifTool, mat2, qpdf and ffmpeg to strip removable embedded tags (EXIF, IPTC, XMP, GPS, MakerNotes, ID3, document properties, etc.) from images, audio, video, PDFs and Office documents — and shows a before/after diff of what was removed.

Required Ruby Version

>= 3.2

Authors

Laurent Zogaj

Versions

  1. 4.3.1

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      1. 4.3.1 source July 24, 2026 (26.5 KB)
  2. 4.3.0

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      1. 4.3.0 source July 02, 2026 (26 KB)
  3. 4.2.0

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      1. 4.2.0 source July 02, 2026 (26 KB)
  4. 4.1.0

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      1. 4.1.0 source June 25, 2026 (33.5 KB)
  5. 4.0.1

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      1. 4.0.1 source June 24, 2026 (31.5 KB)
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Requirements

ExifTool (https://exiftool.org) on PATH — required

mat2 (https://github.com/jvoisin/mat2) on PATH — required

qpdf (https://qpdf.sourceforge.io) on PATH — required

ffmpeg (https://ffmpeg.org) on PATH — required

POSIX cp with metadata-preservation support — required for --in-place

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