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Clean a file before you send it

Photos carry the GPS coordinates of where you were standing. PDFs carry your name, and often the full path of the document they came from. Drop a file here to read exactly what is in it — then take back a copy with all of it gone, and anything you black out gone with it.

or drag and drop it hereor tap anywhere in this box
JPEG or PDF · nothing is sent anywhere

Nothing leaves this device. Open your browser's Network tab and watch — your file never appears.

What is in this file

Black something out

Drag across anything you want gone — a face, an address, an account number. The box is painted onto the pixels and the file is written back out from the canvas, so there is no layer to peel off afterwards.

On a PDF, a page you mark is rendered to pixels and the original page is thrown away — the text under your box is removed from the file rather than covered over. That is the difference that matters: a black rectangle drawn on top of a PDF can be selected and copied straight back out, which is how documents leak. Marked pages become pictures, so they stop being selectable and searchable. Pages you do not mark are left exactly as they were.

Save as

Nothing is uploadedYour browser opens the file and does the work. There is no server to send it to, so there is nothing to leak, log or delete later.
No account, no sign-upNothing to sign up for, and no cap on file size. Free runs one file at a time, forever. Pro takes a whole batch in one pass.
No upload, no waitingWork starts the moment you drop the file. A 40 MB photo does not have to travel to a data centre and back.

The GPS tag is the one that matters

A photo taken on a phone with location services on records latitude and longitude to several decimal places — enough to identify a specific building. Post that photo and you have published where you were. Most social networks strip it on upload; email, messaging apps and file-sharing sites frequently do not.

What else is in there

Camera make and model, lens, the exact timestamp, and on many cameras a body serial number that links every photo you have ever taken with that camera to each other. Fields carrying location, serial numbers or your name are highlighted in the table above.

How the removal works

The image is redrawn onto a blank canvas and saved fresh. Metadata is stored alongside the pixels, not inside them, so redrawing carries none of it forward. That is also why every other tool on this site strips metadata as a side effect — this page just makes it visible first.

You can read the parser

The EXIF reader here is about 130 lines of plain JavaScript in /exif.js, not a library. That is deliberate: a page that claims to show you what your photo reveals should be a page you can check. Here is how the no-upload guarantee is enforced.

How to see and remove EXIF data
  1. Drop in a JPEG.
  2. Read every field it carries. Anything identifying is flagged in red.
  3. Download the clean copy if you want the metadata gone.

All 39 HermitFile tools

Every one of them runs in your browser. Nothing you open is uploaded, and nothing is stored.

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Image tools

Make a passport photoFinds the face and frames it to a passport specification, then saves at the exact pixel size and under the KB limit. Check my passport photoCheck a passport or visa photo against the rules the authority actually publishes, before you submit it. Check my document uploadCheck a document against a portal’s published format list and size ceiling, before it is silently rejected. Resize to an exact KBHit a pixel size and a KB limit at the same time, without the picture being shrunk behind your back. Crop & rotateCut an exact rectangle by dragging or by typing the numbers. Rotate, flip, and never enlarge. iPhone HEIC to JPGConvert iPhone photos into a format every upload form accepts. Convert formatWebP, AVIF, PNG, JPG and more. Transparency gets the colour you choose instead of turning black. Compress an imageMake the file smaller while the picture stays exactly the same width and height. Clean a fileSee what a file says about you, then remove it — including text under a redaction box. View & remove EXIFSee the camera, timestamp and GPS coordinates hidden in a photo, then save a clean copy. QR code generator & readerEncodes exactly the link you type, with no redirect through anyone else’s domain. Reads codes from an image too. Read text from a scanPull selectable text out of a scanned PDF or a photo of a page, without the scan leaving your device.

Video tools

MOV to MP4Turn an iPhone .mov into an .mp4 by swapping the wrapper, with the video copied across and nothing re-encoded. Trim a videoKeep the part you want. The clip is copied rather than re-encoded, so no quality is lost. Split into partsCut a long recording into pieces short enough to post, without re-encoding any of them. Rotate a videoChange the rotation flag a phone wrote instead of re-encoding the picture. Seconds, not minutes. Remove the soundDrop the audio track and copy every frame across untouched — same quality, same size. Video to MP3Convert a video’s sound to MP3, or lift the original audio out byte for byte with nothing re-encoded. Video to GIFPick a range, a frame rate and a size, and get an animated GIF back with nothing uploaded. Green screen swapSwap a green or blue screen for a solid colour with a live preview, no AI model and no watermark. Silence removerFinds the quiet stretches by listening to the audio and cuts them out, with a timeline showing every cut first. Blur pad to a new ratioFit a video into 9:16, 1:1 or another shape with a blurred background instead of black bars. Compress a videoAim at a Discord, email or WhatsApp limit — or your own — and get an MP4 checked afterwards, not just promised. Noise removerLearns your recording’s own background hiss or hum from a quiet stretch, then subtracts exactly that. Auto-reframeCrops a landscape clip to a new shape and pans the crop to follow the motion, instead of a fixed centre. CaptionsBurns an .srt or .vtt subtitle file into the video as styled, timed on-screen text. Beat syncFinds the beats in the clip's own audio and lands a flash or a zoom-punch on each one. Highlight finderScores a clip by loudness and movement, and ranks the best stretches to cut out, losslessly.

PDF tools

Merge PDFsJoin several PDFs into one, in the order you choose, and rotate pages losslessly. Split PDFPull out a page range, or break a document into one file per page. Compress a PDFShrink the pictures inside the file and leave the text selectable. Refuses to hand back a bigger file. PDF to imagesRender each page to a JPG or PNG at the resolution you choose. PDF to textPull the words out of a PDF and copy them or save a .txt file. Says so when a PDF is a scan. Remove a PDF passwordSave a copy that opens with no password, using the password you already know. Rotate PDF pagesTurn some pages or all of them, permanently, with no loss of quality. Remove PDF pagesName the pages you want gone and get everything else back as one document. Redact a PDFSearch every page for a name or a number, remove the text itself, then check the finished file. Images to PDFCombine photos into one PDF that lands under the KB limit the portal demands. Bank statement to CSVEvery transaction out of a statement PDF as a spreadsheet, and it checks its own total against the closing balance.