What does your file say about you?

Every PDF, photo and Word document carries metadata you never typed: who wrote it, on which machine, with which software, and — for a photograph — where you were standing. Drop a file and read all of it.

Drop a document or image here, or browse

PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, JPEG, PNG, WebP · max 10 MB · never saved

We read your file. We never change it. Tamperlens has no code path that writes a document — the bytes are parsed in memory, the answer is JSON, and nothing survives the response. There is deliberately no "download a cleaned copy" button here: producing a stripped file is a different product with different promises, and this one's promise is that your file goes home exactly as it arrived. How that is enforced.

What you will find in there

Metadata is written by the software, not by you, which is why it so often says more than intended. A payslip exported from a payroll system names the system. A contract saved by a paralegal names the paralegal. A photograph taken on a phone carries the make, the model, the lens, the exact second, and — unless the phone was told otherwise — the latitude and longitude.

The surprising one is Word and Excel. A .docx is a ZIP, and a photograph pasted into it keeps its own EXIF inside the package. Tamperlens opens those too: if there is a picture in your document with GPS in it, it is listed here with everything else.

This is not a fraud check

This page reports what the file says. It draws no conclusions and gives no risk score. If you want the forensic reading — whether a document was edited after signing, whether a redaction actually removed the text underneath, whether the dates contradict each other — that is the free checker, which runs eleven signal families over the same file.

In the API

POST /api/v1/metadata returns the same report as JSON and costs one document from your monthly quota. It works without an API key, exactly like the checker. See the reference.