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Metadata & Recovery Hub

What's hidden
inside your files.

Inspect, verify, clean, and recover data from any file. Every tool runs entirely in your browser — no servers, no uploads, no accounts.

Metadata & Recovery is a privacy-first suite of 23 browser-based tools covering file inspection, EXIF analysis, cryptographic verification, metadata cleaning, content recovery, and file analysis. All 18 tools are live. All processing is local. Nothing leaves your device.

100% local processing

Zero file uploads

No accounts required

Works offline after loading

Web Crypto API

Open web standards

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All 18 Tools — Live

File Type Detector

Magic byte analysis — identify any file by its actual content

Metadata Viewer

Extract EXIF, GPS, authorship, and document properties

Checksum Generator

SHA-256 · SHA-512 · MD5 · verify downloads and backups

Duplicate File Checker

SHA-256 content comparison — catches renamed duplicates

File Signature Viewer

Hex + ASCII raw byte viewer with entropy and frequency map

Camera, GPS, exposure, lens — privacy risk scored

Strip all image metadata · verified clean after every pass

PDF Metadata Cleaner

Remove author, XMP, producer — xref offsets preserved

Office Metadata Cleaner

Scrub DOCX · XLSX · PPTX author, company, and custom properties

Batch Metadata Cleaner

Drop a mixed batch — auto-routed to the correct cleaner

PDF Text Extractor

Recover text from PDFs · search · download TXT or JSON

DOCX Text Extractor

Recover text from Word docs · tables · footnotes · TXT or JSON

PDF Image Extractor

Pull all embedded images from PDFs · preview · batch download

DOCX Image Extractor

Extract every image from Word documents · preview · download

PPTX Image Extractor

Extract images from presentations · grouped by slide

File Information Viewer

Name · size · type · hash · timestamps · extension check

Rows · columns · empty cells · duplicates · column types

Archive Inspector

List ZIP contents · sizes · dates · ratios · non-destructive

🔍 01 File Inspection 5 tools

Universal Inspector

One entry point for file identity, signature checks, metadata clues, privacy indicators, and plain-language risk signals.

Turns hidden file clues into a human-readable privacy report with risk levels and recommended next steps.

Compare two files and see what metadata or file identity clues were added, removed, or changed.

Cleaner Verification Report

Compare an original file to a cleaned file and confirm what risk clues were removed, what remains, and what needs review.

Batch Intelligence Report

Analyze many files together for repeated authors, devices, software trails, signatures, extensions, and privacy patterns.

File Type Detector

Reads magic bytes — not the extension — to identify what a file actually is. Catches renamed or misidentified files instantly.

Metadata Viewer

Extracts all embedded metadata — EXIF, GPS, authorship, software, document properties — from JPG, PNG, PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX.

Checksum Generator

Generates SHA-256, SHA-512, SHA-1, and MD5 fingerprints. Paste a known hash to verify downloads, backups, or detect tampering.

Duplicate File Checker

Compares files by SHA-256 hash to detect exact duplicates across a batch — even if renamed or moved.

File Signature Viewer

Shows raw file header bytes in hex and ASCII with magic byte identification, byte frequency map, and Shannon entropy.

🛡 02 Privacy & Metadata Cleaning 5 tools

Reads all EXIF data from JPG, WEBP, and TIFF — camera model, lens, GPS coordinates, exposure, ISO, focal length. Privacy risk scoring included.

Strips GPS, camera data, software tags, and all EXIF from images before sharing. Verified clean after every strip. Nothing is re-uploaded.

PDF Metadata Cleaner

Removes hidden metadata from PDFs — author, producer, creator, XMP packets — using length-preserving byte substitution. xref offsets stay intact.

Office Metadata Cleaner

Scrubs author, company, manager, revision number, and custom properties from DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX files. ZIP structure preserved exactly.

Batch Metadata Cleaner

Drop a mixed batch of images, PDFs, and Office documents. Each file is auto-routed to the correct cleaner and processed locally in one pass.

♻ 03 File Recovery 5 tools

PDF Text Extractor

Recovers readable text from text-based PDFs. Search, copy, or download as TXT or JSON. Quality score shows extraction confidence. Encrypted PDFs detected.

DOCX Text Extractor

Extracts all text from Word documents — paragraphs, headings, tables, footnotes, and comments. Download as TXT or JSON. Quality score included.

PDF Image Extractor

Pulls all embedded images from a PDF. Previews in a lightbox. Download individually or as a batch. JPEG, PNG, and Flate-compressed images supported.

DOCX Image Extractor

Extracts every embedded image from Word documents. Preview in a lightbox, then download individually or all at once. PNG, JPEG, SVG, and more.

PPTX Image Extractor

Recovers all images from PowerPoint presentations, grouped by slide. Preview in a lightbox, then download individually or all at once.

📊 04 File Analysis 3 tools

File Information Viewer

Complete file report — name, size, type, last modified, SHA-256 hash, and extension integrity check. Flags mismatches between extension and actual content.

Row count, column count, empty cells, duplicate rows, inferred column types, and a live data preview — without opening a spreadsheet app. CSV and TSV supported.

Archive Inspector

Lists every file inside a ZIP archive — names, sizes, dates, compression ratios, and CRC-32 checksums — without extracting anything. ZIP64 and encrypted entries supported.

Why these tools are private

Privacy isn't a setting or a promise here — it's the architecture. Every tool is built so that it cannot send your files anywhere, because there is no server to send them to. All processing runs in your browser using open web standards.

✓No file uploads

✓No analytics

✓No accounts required

✓No tracking scripts

✓Works offline after loading

✓Runs entirely in browser

✓Web Crypto API

✓Open web standards

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All 18 tools live and stress-tested. Built one at a time, quality-first.

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