4n6 MetaRaser: Limitations and an Alternative

4n6 MetaRaser is a commercial offline desktop-based file metadata remover for Windows® with a graphical user interface. (GUI) Initially released in 2023, it supports multiple types of document, image, audio, and video files, including Microsoft Office® documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), PDF documents, JPEG, PNG, MP3, and MP4. However, it has a few limitations. Most notably, from document file types, it can only remove document properties, but it doesn't supports removing other types of dangerous hidden data from them, such as comments, tracked changes, and hidden text. Also, it doesn't supports removing XMP metadata from PDF files.

Alternative to 4n6 MetaRaser: BatchPurifier™

BatchPurifier™ is a privacy-oriented dedicated offline hidden data & metadata remover for Windows®, that has an easy-to-use graphical user interface, (GUI) and supports the permanent and selective removal of more than 60 types of hidden data & metadata from various types of image, video, audio, and document files, including Microsoft Office®, (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) LibreOffice®, PDF, JPEG, PNG, WebP, SVG, AVI, WAV, MP3, and MP4. Supported hidden data & metadata types include properties, comments, tracked changes, hidden text, and slide notes. BatchPurifier™ can clean thousands of files of mixed types across different folders and ZIP-compressed files at once. The user can save presets of hidden data types to remove, to streamline the process. These features offer the user increased comfort, flexibility, and productivity.

The multiple online listings of 4n6 MetaRaser

For increased visibility in search results, 4n6 MetaRaser has multiple online listings under different titles:

• Three listings on company websites
  
  
  • 4n6 MetaRaser - https://forensiksoft.com/remove-metadata/
    
    
  • 4n6 MetaRaser - https://pcdots.com/metadata-erasure.html
    
    
  • 4n6 Metadata Cleaner - https://4n6.app/metadata-cleaner/
    
    
• Seven listings on Microsoft Store
  
  
  • MetaRaser - https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/xpfcjh6xcpt7g7
    
    
  • Metadata Removal Tool - https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mvq61j1wqpv
    
    
  • Metadata Remover - https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nmvp23shd7j
    
    
  • Metadata Viewer - https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pfkm522sv9h
    
    
  • Clean Metadata from Word - https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p99j17k9gv9
    
    
  • Remove PDF Metadata - https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9phcnzgz2m8k
    
    
  • Zip Metadata Remover - https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9ndkvwc9srkz
    
    
• Three listings on Microsoft Marketplace:
  
  
  • 4n6 MetaRaser Software - https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/4n6.metadata-eraser
    
    
  • Word Metadata Removal Tool - https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/4n6.word-metadata-remover
    
    
  • MP4 Metadata Remover - https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/4n6.mp4-metadata-remover
    
    

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