SVG Remove Metadata
What SVG Remove Metadata actually does
Design tools write more than a drawing. An export commonly carries a metadata element and comments identifying the tool, the account, and in some cases a content-provenance record, none of which affect the rendering and all of which ship to anyone who opens the file. Removing them by hand means editing markup and hoping nothing that mattered went with it. This removes the metadata element and the provenance comments specifically, leaves everything else alone, and shows the drawing before and after so it is clear nothing visual moved.
How to use it
- Choose the exported SVG files.
- Run it; the metadata element and known provenance comments are removed.
- Check the counts and confirm the drawing is unchanged.
- Download the stripped file or the batch as a zip.
Useful for
- Removing an editor's identifying block before publishing a graphic.
- Clearing content-provenance comments from an asset going into a repository.
- Cutting dead weight out of an export without running a full clean.
Limits worth knowing
- This removes metadata, not active content. Use sanitize for safety, or clean for both.
- Provenance comments are matched against known editor markers, so an unusual tool's comment may not be recognised.
- Metadata embedded inside an embedded raster image is inside that image, not in the SVG, and is not reached here.
Questions people ask
Does this make the file safe to inline?
No. It removes metadata only. Sanitize is the tool that removes active content, and clean does both.
Will it remove my own comments?
Only comments carrying known editor and provenance markers. Ordinary comments stay unless you also minify.
Is anything sent anywhere?
No. The file is read and rewritten in this tab.