MetaClean 🧹

View and remove metadata from images and videos.

Requirements

• Python 3.11+
• ffmpeg installed and available on PATH
• exiftool dir in the project root (https://exiftool.org)

Install FFmpeg (Windows)

winget install Gyan.FFmpeg
ffmpeg -version

Setup

py -m ensurepip --upgrade
py -m pip install -e .

Add metaclean in the current session:

$env:Path = $env:Path + ";" + (Resolve-Path .\Scripts)

Usage

metaclean view "image.jpg"
metaclean clean "image.jpg"

Output directory will be created for the cleaned image/video.

Troubleshooting

If you get an error 'ffmpeg not found', use where.exe to find it on PATH:

where.exe ffmpeg

Support

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Author

Ville Pakarinen (@vpakarinen2)