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metaclean 4.0.1

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.

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Versions:

  1. 4.0.1 June 24, 2026 (31.5 KB)
  2. 1.0.2 May 01, 2026 (24 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

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Authors:

  • Laurent Zogaj

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Total downloads 841

For this version 76

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License:

MIT

Required Ruby Version: >= 3.2

New versions require MFA: true

Version published with MFA: true

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