MAT (Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit)
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- GPLv2
- Programming language
- Python
- Author
- Julien Voisin
- Latest release
- 0.6.1
- Latest release date
Project health
Why this tool?
Many file forms store sensitive data, like a location, author name, or even the date and time. This toolkit can remove these bits of data while allowing the file to be used as before.
Background information
Supported file formats
- Portable Network Graphics (.png)
- JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg)
- TIFF (.tif, tiff)
- Open Documents (.odt, .odx, .ods)
- Office OpenXml (.docx, .pptx, .xlsx)
- Portable Document Fileformat (.pdf)
- Tape ARchives (.tar, .tar.bz2)
- MPEG AUdio (.mp3, .mp2, .mp1)
- Ogg Vorbis (.ogg)
- Free Lossless Audio Codec (.flac)
- Torrent (.torrent)
Usage and audience
MAT is commonly used for privacy enhancement. Target users for this tool are general public.
Features
- Command line interface
- Graphical user interface
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + The source code of this software is available
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a privacy tool.