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Photo Metadata

12 Best Free and Open Source Photo Metadata Editors

September 20, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

A metadata editor is computer software which allows users to view and edit metadata tags interactively and save them in the graphics file.

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Photo Metadata

Kleaner – image metadata cleaner

September 12, 2026 Steve Emms GUI

Kleaner is a graphical image metadata cleaner for removing EXIF, IPTC, XMP and comments from multiple image files before sharing.

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Music

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Music Tag Editors

July 27, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup

Tag editors are frequently used to correct and organise multimedia files and they support popular digital audio formats.

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OpenMetadata – metadata management and data observability platform

June 13, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

OpenMetadata provides metadata discovery, data lineage, quality testing, profiling, governance, and collaboration across data systems.

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Metamorphosis – inspect and change embedded metadata

April 27, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Metamorphosis is a desktop utility for inspecting and changing embedded metadata across media and document files.

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Photo Metadata

OMERewriter – view and rewrite OME-TIFF metadata

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Scientific

OMERewriter is a desktop application for working with microscopy image metadata stored in OME-TIFF files.

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Metadata Cleaner – inspect and remove hidden metadata from files

April 1, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Metadata Cleaner is a desktop utility designed to inspect and remove hidden metadata from files such as images, documents, and archives.

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Photo Metadata

Scramble – privacy-focused image metadata removal tool

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Scramble provides a clean, intuitive interface featuring a user-friendly drag-and-drop workflow for metadata inspection and removal.

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Metadata

mat2 – metadata anonymisation toolkit

December 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mat2 is a metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats.

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PDF

PDF Metadata Editor – simple GUI tool

November 8, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

PDF Metadata Editor is a simple tool you can use to edit the metadata (Author, Keywords, etc.) of a PDF document.

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Geotagging – photography geotagging tool

October 24, 2024 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Geotagging matches JPEG photos with GPX tracks, corrects camera clock offsets, and lets you adjust GPS positions on an interactive map.

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Image Viewers

Geeqie – image viewer and photo collection manager

November 6, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Geeqie is a GTK image viewer and organiser with RAW previews, EXIF metadata editing, image comparison, duplicate detection and searching.

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Manage creative assets

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Bridge

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Adobe Bridge is a creative asset manager that lets you preview, organise, edit and publish multiple creative assets quickly and easily.

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Natural Language Processing

Tika – content analysis toolkit

September 3, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Tika detects file formats and extracts text and metadata from documents, emails and archives for indexing, analysis and search.

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