Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal
Simon Willison published a post on September 29, 2026 titled "Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal." The title describes a tool that performs two functions on photos: blurring faces and removing metadata. The word "local" in the title indicates the processing runs on the user's own machine rather than on a remote service. The excerpt supplied for this item contains only the title, author, URL, and publication timestamp; the body of the article is not included. Because of that, the source text does not state which face-detection method the tool uses, which image formats it accepts, what metadata fields it strips, what language or runtime it is written in, or how it is installed or invoked. No version numbers, model names, benchmarks, prices, or repository details appear in the available text. Any description of the tool's internals, accuracy, or performance would go beyond what the source provides.
The post describes a locally run tool for blurring faces and stripping photo metadata, which developers can evaluate as an on-device alternative to uploading images to a service.