Why "delete the file after upload" is not good enough
Most online PDF and photo tools send your file to a server. Even when a company promises to delete it, you are trusting a policy you cannot verify, and the bytes still traveled across the network and sat on disk somewhere.
Scrubbr takes that trust question off the table. There is no upload endpoint. The metadata reading, scrubbing, redaction, and verification all run in JavaScript and WebAssembly on your machine. Open your browser network tab and watch: no request ever carries your file.
What Scrubbr does
- Inspect — enumerate every metadata field a file carries, grouped and with the privacy-sensitive ones flagged.
- Scrub — strip all of it, or keep the fields you choose, and download a clean copy.
- Redact (PDF) — draw boxes over sensitive text; Scrubbr removes the underlying content, not just the pixels.
- Verify — re-open the output and confirm the metadata is gone and redacted text is unrecoverable.
Built for a single job, done correctly
Scrubbr is deliberately narrow: a metadata scrubber and a true redactor for PDFs and images. It does not merge, split, or edit documents. That focus is why the verification step is real rather than decorative — every output is checked against the thing it claims to have removed.
Frequently asked questions
Do my files get uploaded anywhere?
No. Scrubbr has no server that receives files. All processing happens in your browser, and you can confirm this in your network tab — no request contains your file data.
Is it really free?
Single-file scrubbing, redaction, and verification are free forever. A one-time $5 Pro unlock adds batch processing and PDF/A export.
Which file types are supported?
PDFs, and JPEG/PNG images for lossless metadata removal. Other image types can be re-encoded to strip metadata.