In my previous post, I wrote about Doc Scrubber. It comes in handy when you want to remove hidden metadata from your word documents. There are certainly some metadata that you don’t want to share with people. Same as word document, image also has metadata embedded in it, such as the EXIF data, which describes about the date when the photo was taken, type of camera you used, shutter speed, white balance and more. Metadata can also include unedited thumbnails and GPS information in geotagged photos.
If you are not interested in sharing the EXIF data of your images, you should consider wipe out the unnecessary metadata by using JPEG & PNG Stripper. JPEG & PNG Stripper is free and portable application that allows you to remove the metadata from your JPEG and PNG photos. It only clean the metadata without affecting the photo quality.
To use this lightweight utility, simply drag and drop the files or folders into the main window of JPEG & PNG Stripper. Check the actions (located at the top of the window) that you want this application to perform on your images, and click the “clear” button to begin the metadata removal process. By removing the metadata, your images will end up with much smaller sizes.
JPEG & PNG Stripper supports Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003, and Vista. This application is recommended for those who often upload and share images on the web.
