Metadata Extraction

Auto-generate your docs

ExifTool quick commands

exiftool -a -u foto.jpg | grep -i "gps\|date\|camera"
# strip before publishing
exiftool -all= foto_sanitizada.jpg

Tool	File Type	URL	Platform
ExifTool	Images, PDF, Office	https://exiftool.org	CLI
FOCA	Office, PDF (GUI)	https://github.com/ElevenPaths/FOCA	Windows
Metagoofil	Public documents	https://github.com/laramies/metagoofil	CLI
MAT2	Metadata cleaner	https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2	CLI

Extract metadata

exiftool -a -u -g1 document.pdf > metadata.txt

Search sensitive info

grep -i "author\|creator\|email\|gps" metadata.txt

Clean before publishing

mat2 --inplace clean_document.pdf