NAME

       metadata-cleaner - View and clean metadata in files

SYNOPSYS

       metadata-cleaner [ files ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

       This  tool  allows  you  to view metadata in your files and to get rid of them, as much as
       possible.

       Under  the   hood,   it   relies   on   mat2   to   parse   and   remove   the   metadata:
       ⟨https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2⟩

USAGE

       Files may be passed via commandline or opened from within the app via filebrowser.

       Cleaning  files  might  alter  the  data: Texts in PDF might not be selectable anymore and
       compressed images might be compressed again. Users that are  willing  to  trade  off  some
       metadata's  presence  for  the  guarantee  that  files  won't  be  changed  might  use the
       lightweight mode.

NOTE ABOUT REMOVING METADATA

       While this tool is doing its very best to display metadata, it doesn't mean that a file is
       clean  from  any metadata if it doesn't show any. There is no reliable way to detect every
       single possible metadata for complex file formats.

       This is why you shouldn't rely on metadata's presence to  decide  if  your  file  must  be
       cleaned or not.

BUGS

       Report Bugs at ⟨https://gitlab.com/rmnvgr/metadata-cleaner/issues⟩

AUTHOR

       Romain Vigier ⟨contact@romainvigier.fr⟩

SEE ALSO

       mat2 (1)

                                          December 2020                       METADATA-CLEANER(1)