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Image Metadata Stripper

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This plugin has not been manually reviewed by Obsidian staff. Automatically strips privacy-sensitive metadata from images and PDFs added to your vault.

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Image Metadata Stripper

An Obsidian plugin that automatically strips privacy-sensitive metadata from images and PDFs when they are added to your vault.

Features

  • Automatically strips metadata from files as they enter the vault
  • Manual stripping via right-click context menu
  • Bulk strip all existing vault files at once
  • Per-format toggles for fine-grained control
  • Option to preserve ICC color profiles

What gets removed

Format Metadata removed
JPEG EXIF, IPTC, XMP, comment data
PNG Text chunks, EXIF data
WebP EXIF, XMP data
PDF Info dictionary, XMP metadata packets

Installation

Community plugins (recommended)

  1. Open Settings > Community plugins
  2. Click Browse and search for "Image Metadata Stripper"
  3. Click Install, then Enable

Manual installation

  1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css (if present) from the latest release
  2. Create a folder image-metadata-stripper in your vault's .obsidian/plugins/ directory
  3. Copy the downloaded files into that folder
  4. Enable the plugin in Settings > Community plugins

Settings

Setting Default Description
Enable metadata stripping On Automatically strip metadata from supported files added to the vault
Strip JPEG metadata On Remove EXIF, IPTC, XMP, and comment data from JPEG images
Strip PNG metadata On Remove text chunks and EXIF data from PNG images
Strip WebP metadata On Remove EXIF and XMP data from WebP images
Strip PDF metadata On Remove Info dictionary and XMP metadata from PDF files
Keep color profiles On Preserve ICC color profile data to maintain color accuracy
Show notifications On Display a notice when metadata is stripped

Privacy

This plugin processes all files locally within your vault. No data is sent to any external service. Metadata is permanently removed from the file — this cannot be undone.

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