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
- 4.3.1 July 24, 2026 (26.5 KB)
- 4.3.0 July 02, 2026 (26 KB)
- 4.2.0 July 02, 2026 (26 KB)
- 4.1.0 June 25, 2026 (33.5 KB)
- 4.0.1 June 24, 2026 (31.5 KB)
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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