Your files carry your name.
Documents and photos hide the author, company, edit history and even GPS location in metadata. Drop a file to see what it reveals, then download a clean copy. Everything runs in your browser — the file never leaves this device.
What gets removed
Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Author, last modified by, company, manager, custom properties, template name, total editing time, print date and the embedded preview thumbnail — cleared from docProps inside the file. Plus two things Office's own Document Inspector leaves behind: the saved printer setup and the path the file was last saved to.
Author, title, subject, keywords, creator and producer application, creation and modification dates — cleared from both the info dictionary and embedded XMP metadata. Everything a PDF hides beyond that — earlier versions, comments, attachments, signatures — is in Hidden content above.
Photos
All EXIF data: GPS coordinates, camera make and model, capture date, editing software. Metadata segments are cut out at byte level — pixels are copied untouched, so the clean copy is lossless. Works with full-size phone photos.
Honest limits
Tracked changes and comments in Word are content, not metadata — Barecopy detects them and warns you, but you should accept or reject them in Word before sending.
Verify it yourself
Reopen the clean copy and check File → Info, or right-click → Properties → Details. The identifying fields will be empty.
Zero servers
This page has no backend and never sends your files anywhere. Open DevTools → Network while cleaning a file: no file data leaves — just an anonymous page-view ping.
Prove what you removed
Removing metadata is only half the job when a client, reviewer or court needs to know it was done. Barecopy Pro produces a verification report: a PDF listing every field removed from every file, the SHA-256 checksum of each file before and after cleaning, and the result of an automatic re-scan of the cleaned copy.
The before/after hashes are a chain-of-custody record — the recipient can confirm the exact file that was verified. No other metadata tool produces this.
View a sample report (PDF) →
Pricing
Free
- All formats, full cleaning
- Unlimited files, one by one
- Batch actions up to 3 files
- Runs locally — nothing uploaded
No account needed — just drop a file above.
Pro Launch · 50% off
- Deep clean — one click each for cropped-away picture areas, earlier PDF versions, pivot-table data copies, comments, attachments and signatures
- Unlimited batch — clean a whole folder at once
- Everything as one ZIP download
- PDF verification report: every removed field, SHA-256 before & after, and a re-scan confirming 0 fields remain
- Still 100% local — a lightweight subscription check is the only network call
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Questions
How do I remove the author name from a Word document?
Drop the .docx above. Barecopy shows the author, "last modified by", company and every custom property, then produces a copy with all of them cleared — including fields Word's own Document Inspector misses on Mac. The file never leaves your device.
Does exporting Word to PDF remove metadata?
No. The author name, creator application and timestamps are carried over into the PDF's info dictionary and XMP block. Clean the PDF here after exporting, or clean the Word file before.
How is this different from uploading to an online metadata remover?
You are removing metadata precisely because the file is sensitive — sending it to someone's server defeats the point. Barecopy is a page of JavaScript that processes files inside your browser. Disconnect from the internet after loading the page: it still works.
Do cleaned photos lose quality?
No. Metadata segments (EXIF, GPS, IPTC, comments) are cut out at byte level and the image data is copied untouched — the clean copy is pixel-identical, with the color profile preserved.
What does Barecopy not remove?
Tracked changes and comments in Word are document content, not metadata. Barecopy detects them and warns you — Pro can accept and strip them in one click, or you can do it in Word before sending. A page cropped inside a PDF is flagged but left alone: the hidden margin can only be removed by re-cropping in a PDF editor or printing to a new PDF. A digitally signed PDF is flagged before you clean it — the signature covers the exact bytes of the file, so removing metadata voids it. Send the signed original if the signature is the point, sign the clean copy again, or let Pro drop the void signature along with the signer's name, reason and location rather than leave one that reads as broken. Password-protected PDFs are refused rather than risk corrupting them.
What exactly does the Pro verification report contain?
A plain-text record generated locally: for each file, every metadata field that was found and removed, any warnings, and the SHA-256 checksum of the clean copy — useful when you need to show a client or a court exactly what was scrubbed and prove which file version you sent.