Tag Archives: remove metadata from documents in Java

Metadata is the data that provides information about the actual data. It is commonly described as "data about data". When sending a file to someone, it is not a good practice to send metadata along. It can reveal your information to the receiver that you may not want to share. Some of the examples include; Name, Company Name, Document Modification Date, Make and Model of Camera, etc. In this article, we will be programmatically removing metadata from the images and documents using Java.

After reading this article, you can build your own metadata cleaner java application. It can support adding, modifying, extraction, and removing metadata from a large list of supported formats of word-processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDF files, images, emails, eBooks, drawings, zip files, etc.