Strip EXIF GPS, camera, and author metadata from photos and PDFs entirely in your browser. Files never upload to RookVPN servers.
Phones embed GPS coordinates, device models, and timestamps in every photo. Sharing originals can reveal your home address, workplace, or daily routine to anyone who inspects the metadata.
RookScrub processes files locally using the browser's File API. Download a cleaned copy — nothing is stored on our servers at any point.
Clean common image formats (JPEG, PNG, HEIC) and PDF metadata — including author name, editor software, and GPS coordinates embedded in image thumbnails inside PDFs.
Remove Photo Location & File Metadata exists to strip GPS and camera metadata from a photo or PDF in the browser before you send it. It is not a second copy of the tool homepage. The homepage introduces the whole product. This page stays on one job so a search for that job lands on instructions you can follow without hunting through other tabs. Read the result on this page against the input you actually used. A screenshot without the input is not evidence. If the result surprises you, change one thing and run it again before you change your VPN, browser, or server config.
Work through Remove Photo Location & File Metadata in order. 1. Drop the file. It is read locally. 2. Review the metadata the page lists before you export. 3. Download the cleaned file. 4. Open the download and confirm the GPS tag is gone before you attach it to anything. Write down the input and the output together. When you ask someone for help, send both. Repeat the same input once. A stable tool returns the same answer. If it does not, the input changed or the page is talking to a different network path than you think.
Scrub does not encrypt the file and does not send it. A screenshot of a map is not EXIF, and this tool will not blur that picture. The original file stays on disk until you delete it. Treat the output as a measurement, then decide. RookVPN does not log the contents of a client-side tool, and a measurement is not a promise that every other app on the device behaves the same way. Compare a second path when the decision matters: a terminal command, another browser, or the matching guide linked below.
Example: a phone photo lists a GPS point in the metadata panel. You export a copy, then drop that copy back onto the page. The second read shows no GPS. You send the copy. The camera roll still has the original. Delete that original if the location was the thing you did not want to keep.
After you finish Remove Photo Location & File Metadata, open RookFile when the cleaned file still needs a private transfer if the next question is different from the one this page answers. Stay here if you are still on the same job. Extra pages help only when they answer a new question, such as a different algorithm, a different leak channel, or a different file type. The documentation link on this page is the long form of the same workflow, including the checks that do not fit in the tool UI.
Use Remove Photo Location & File Metadata for one job: to strip GPS and camera metadata from a photo or PDF in the browser before you send it. Bring the before-and-after evidence with you if you change a setting. A VPN icon, a decoded token, a generated password, or a stripped file is not finished until you have checked the output the way this page describes. Then follow the related guide for the long version, and the sibling tool only when the next job is actually different. Keep secrets out of the same message as the link or the file that needs them. If a second run does not match the first, stop and find what changed instead of publishing the first result.
Example: a phone photo lists a GPS point in the metadata panel. You export a copy, then drop that copy back onto the page. The second read shows no GPS. You send the copy. The camera roll still has the original. Delete that original if the location was the thing you did not want to keep. Work the page in this order: Drop the file. It is read locally. Review the metadata the page lists before you export. Download the cleaned file. Open the download and confirm the GPS tag is gone before you attach it to anything. Limits that still apply after a clean result: Scrub does not encrypt the file and does not send it. A screenshot of a map is not EXIF, and this tool will not blur that picture. The original file stays on disk until you delete it.
Yes. Use rookvpn.com/scrub with no account required.
No. Processing happens entirely in your browser; files never leave your device.
WhatsApp compresses images on send, which often removes EXIF data. However, if you send the original file as a document (not as a photo), EXIF data is preserved. Always scrub before sending as a document.
Instagram strips EXIF metadata from uploaded images, but the original file on your device still contains the GPS data. Scrub photos before storing or sending them elsewhere.
No. Stripping runs in the browser.
No. It removes tags such as GPS, camera model, and author, not pixels.