Remove EXIF and GPS location data from photos
Strips EXIF, GPS location, XMP, IPTC and comments from photos in your Apify key-value store, your uploaded files or direct image links, and keeps each photo in its own format (JPEG stays JPEG). The camera rotation is applied to the pixels, so photos stay upright. Each row lists the metadata the original contained, so you can check that location data was there and is gone.
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The Image Converter & Compressor - WebP, AVIF, strip EXIF/GPS Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like output format, keep metadata (exif, gps, xmp, iptc), and more, to match your specific use case.
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The EXIF removal task deletes EXIF (including GPS location, camera model and dates), XMP, IPTC and comments. The orientation is applied to the pixels first, so the photo does not turn sideways.
JPEG and WebP photos are re-encoded in their own format at the quality you set (90 in this task), so the file changes slightly; use 95 to 100 to stay closer to the original. PNG stays lossless.
Yes. Each dataset row of the EXIF removal task has hadExif, hadGps, hadXmp and hadIptc for the original, and every converted file is read again to check that no metadata is left.