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title: "Image metadata viewer"
canonical: https://withicarus.com/tools/image-metadata
site: Icarus
description: "See what a JPEG or PNG is carrying: the camera, the place it was taken, and whether it says it was made with AI."
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# Image metadata viewer

See what a JPEG or PNG is carrying: the camera, the place it was taken, and whether it says it was made with AI.

## What does it read?

| Name | Where it sits in the file | What it means |
| --- | --- | --- |
| EXIF | A JPEG APP1 segment, or a PNG eXIf chunk | What the camera recorded: make, model, lens, shutter, aperture, ISO and the date. |
| GPS | Inside EXIF | Where the photo was taken. Anyone who downloads the file can read it. |
| XMP | A JPEG APP1 segment, or a PNG iTXt chunk | Text attached by editing apps, including keywords and a declared source. |
| Digital source type | Iptc4xmpExt:DigitalSourceType inside XMP | trainedAlgorithmicMedia means made with AI. compositeWithTrainedAlgorithmicMedia means edited with AI. |
| contains-synthetic-performer | The subject keywords inside XMP | The tag Amazon asks for on a photo-real person made with AI. |
| Content Credentials | A JPEG APP11 segment, or a PNG caBX chunk | A C2PA manifest saying where the image came from and what was done to it. |

## Presence, not proof

This tool says whether Content Credentials are in the file. It does not check the signature on them, so it cannot tell you they are genuine. Anyone can attach a manifest that does not hold up. Treat it as a hint about where an image came from, not as proof.

The same goes the other way. Most apps drop all of this when they save or export, so an empty result does not mean an image was made with AI, or that it was not.

## About the clean copy

The clean copy is made by redrawing the image in your browser and saving it again as a JPEG. The pixels stay, everything attached goes: camera, GPS, XMP and any Content Credentials. Use it when you do not want to publish where a photo was taken.

Saving again also loses a little quality, so keep your original.

## Sources

Checked 19 September 2026.

- IPTC Photo Metadata Standard: Digital Source Type: https://www.iptc.org/std/photometadata/specification/IPTC-PhotoMetadata
- IPTC Digital Source Type NewsCodes: https://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/digitalsourcetype/
- C2PA technical specification: https://spec.c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/2.1/specs/C2PA_Specification.html
- Amazon Seller Central: Product image guide: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/external/G1881

## The tool

Drop a JPEG or PNG at https://withicarus.com/tools/image-metadata. Free, no account, and it runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded.


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Site: Icarus (https://withicarus.com)
Canonical: https://withicarus.com/tools/image-metadata
Contact: tanmay@withicarus.com