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Free online tools to scan, analyze, and protect your images. No registration, no limits.
EXIF & Metadata
Every digital photo embeds hidden metadata — camera model, GPS coordinates, timestamps, lens data, and software history. These tools let you view, compare, edit, and strip EXIF, IPTC, and XMP metadata from JPEG, PNG, HEIC, and WebP files. Essential for journalists verifying photo origins, privacy-conscious users removing location data, and photographers managing image metadata.
Scanners
Extract information from images using AI and computer vision. Decode QR codes and barcodes from photos, extract text with OCR in 15+ languages, scan documents and receipts, detect and analyze faces, and identify NSFW content. All powered by client-side models — Tesseract.js for OCR, jsQR for QR codes, faceapi.js for face detection, and nsfwjs for content classification.
QR Code Scanner
Read QR codes from images
Barcode Scanner
Decode EAN, UPC, Code128
Text Scanner (OCR)
Extract text from images
Face Counter
Count faces in group photos
Document Scanner
Extract text from PDF files
Receipt Scanner
Extract items and totals from receipts
File Hash Scanner
SHA-256, SHA-512, SHA-1, MD5 checksums
Screenshot Scanner
Detect screenshots vs real photographs
Similarity Scanner
Visual pixel-level image comparison
Print Readiness Scanner
Check DPI, resolution & print size
Analysis & Verification
The largest category — 50+ tools for image forensics, AI detection, quality analysis, color science, and file integrity. Detect Photoshop manipulation with Error Level Analysis, find AI-generated images, verify photo authenticity, analyze JPEG compression artifacts, extract hidden data with steganography scanners, and perform frequency-domain forensics with FFT and DCT viewers. Used by digital forensics professionals, newsrooms, insurance investigators, and legal teams.
AI Image Detector
Detect DALL-E, Midjourney, SD
Authenticity Check
Detect edited or modified photos
ELA Scanner
Pixel-level manipulation detection
NSFW Scanner
Content safety classification
Face Blur
Blur faces for privacy
Stego Scanner
Detect hidden data in images
Stego Encoder
Hide text or files in images
Thumbnail Scanner
EXIF thumbnail mismatch detection
Duplicate Scanner
Find similar photos via perceptual hashing
JPEG Ghost Scanner
Detect compression-level splicing
Clone Detection Scanner
Find copy-move forgery regions
Noise Analysis Scanner
Detect retouching via noise patterns
Luminance Gradient Scanner
Sobel gradient & direction map
Bit Plane Analyzer
Per-channel bit plane viewer
DCT Block Viewer
JPEG 8x8 block structure
JPEG Structure Analyzer
Markers, quantization tables & fingerprinting
String Extractor
Hidden text & embedded strings
Histogram Analyzer
RGB & luminance distribution
PCA Scanner
Principal component analysis
Reverse Image Search
Find image sources online
QR Code Generator
Create custom QR codes
Image Resizer
Resize & scale images
Image Compressor
Reduce file size
Format Converter
PNG, JPG, WebP, AVIF
HEIC Converter
iPhone HEIC to JPG/PNG
SVG to PNG
Rasterize at custom resolution
Image to SVG
Bitmap to vector conversion
Rounded Corners
Add border radius to images
Image Comparison
Before/after slider viewer
Image Encryption
AES-256 encrypt photos
Watermark Detector
Detect visible watermarks
Image SEO Checker
Optimize images for search
Dominant Colors
K-means color extraction
Barcode Generator
Create Code128, EAN, UPC
Social Media Resizer
All platform sizes at once
Redaction Tool
Censor sensitive areas permanently
Lateral Chromatic Aberration
Channel displacement in pixels
FFT Spectrum
Frequency domain forensics
Forgery Heatmap
Combined manipulation detector
Background Remover
AI background removal
Image Upscaler
AI 2× & 4× enlargement
Image Colorizer
AI B&W photo colorization
Object Remover
AI remove objects from photos
AI Product Background Generator
AI product photo backgrounds
Photo Unblur
Fix blurry and grainy photos
Low Light Enhancer
Brighten dark and night photos
AI Alt Text Generator
Alt text, descriptions and captions
Image Cropper
Crop, rotate, flip with presets
Image Watermark
Text & logo overlay, tiling
Image Annotator
Arrows, shapes, text, highlights
Image to PDF
Multiple images → PDF pages
PDF to Image
PDF pages → PNG/JPEG
Favicon Generator
All sizes + ICO + manifest
GIF Maker
Images → animated GIF
Animated WebP Maker
Images → animated WebP
Image Filters
Filters, effects, adjustments
Dithering
Floyd-Steinberg, Bayer, Atkinson
Halftone
Dot screen, CMYK angles
ASCII Art Generator
Image → text characters
Pixelate
Flat colour blocks, 2-64px
DPI Converter
Retag or resample print DPI
Pixel Ruler
Measure distance & angle on an image
Collage Maker
Combine photos into grid layouts
Color Picker
Pick colors from any image
Color Blindness Simulator
Test image accessibility
Contrast Checker
WCAG AA/AAA contrast ratio
Metadata Editor
View & remove EXIF selectively
OG Image Previewer
Social media card preview
Base64 Encoder
Image to Base64 & back
Image Splitter
Split into grid tiles
Demosaicing Trace
Bayer interpolation trace
Shadow Edge Orientation
Shadow edge orientation map
Camera Fingerprint PRNU
Sensor noise identification
Color Space Viewer
sRGB / Adobe RGB / P3 gamut
Quality Analyzer
Check resolution, compression
Color Palette
Extract colors in HEX, RGB
Tool Comparison
Side-by-side comparison of every Scanly tool — what each analyzes, which formats it supports, and what you can do with the results. Use this table to find the right tool for your specific task or to understand how different analysis methods complement each other in a verification workflow.
| Tool | Input | Output | Privacy | Use Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXIF Checker | JPG, PNG, WebP | Metadata report | Server | View camera, GPS, timestamps |
| EXIF Remover | JPG, PNG | Cleaned image | Client | Strip metadata before sharing |
| GPS Map | JPG, PNG, WebP | Map location | Client | View photo location on map |
| Privacy Score | JPG, PNG, WebP | Risk score 0–100 | Client | Assess metadata privacy risk |
| Color Palette | JPG, PNG, WebP | HEX/RGB/HSL | Client | Extract dominant colors |
| AI Detector | JPG, PNG, WebP | AI verdict | Client | Detect AI-generated images |
| Authenticity | JPG, PNG, WebP | Edit analysis | Client | Verify if photo was edited |
| Quality Analyzer | JPG, PNG, WebP | Quality metrics | Client | Check resolution and sharpness |
| Batch Analyzer | Multiple images | Comparison table | Client | Analyze multiple photos at once |
| EXIF Compare | Two images | Side-by-side diff | Client | Compare metadata between photos |
| QR Scanner | Image with QR | Decoded data | Client | Extract URLs, WiFi, contacts |
| Barcode Scanner | Image with barcode | Decoded number | Client | Read EAN-13, UPC-A, Code 128 |
| Text Scanner | Image with text | Extracted text | Client | OCR text recognition |
| Receipt Scanner | Receipt photo | Parsed items & total | Client | Digitize receipts for expenses |
| Document Scanner | Image, PDF | Extracted text | Client | Extract text from documents |
| Face Counter | JPG, PNG, WebP | Face count & boxes | Client | Count and detect faces |
| File Hash | Any file | SHA-256, MD5 | Client | Verify file integrity |
| Screenshot Scanner | JPG, PNG, WebP | Screenshot detection | Client | Detect screenshots vs photos |
| Similarity Scanner | JPG, PNG, WebP | Pixel comparison | Client | Visual image similarity % |
| Print Readiness | JPG, PNG, TIFF | DPI, dimensions | Client | Check print size at 300 DPI |
| ELA Scanner | JPG, PNG, WebP | ELA heatmap | Client | Detect pixel-level manipulation |
| NSFW Scanner | JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF | Safety classification | Client | Content moderation & safety |
| Face Blur | JPG, PNG, WebP | Blurred image | Client | Anonymize faces for privacy |
| Stego Scanner | PNG, BMP, WebP | LSB analysis | Client | Detect hidden steganography |
| Stego Encoder | PNG, BMP, WebP | LSB encoding + PNG | Client | Hide text or files in images |
| Thumbnail Scanner | JPG | Mismatch report + diff | Client | Detect post-capture editing |
| Duplicate Scanner | All images | Duplicate groups | Client | Find similar/duplicate photos |
| JPEG Ghost Scanner | JPG | Ghost heatmap + quality | Client | Detect compression splicing |
| Clone Detection Scanner | All images | Clone map + regions | Client | Find copy-move forgery |
| Noise Analysis Scanner | All images | Noise map + uniformity | Client | Detect retouching traces |
| Luminance Gradient Scanner | All images | Gradient map + direction | Client | Sobel gradient & direction map |
| Bit Plane Analyzer | All images | Bit plane view + complexity | Client | LSB & steganography detection |
| DCT Block Viewer | All images | DCT map + block energy | Client | JPEG 8x8 block structure |
| JPEG Structure Analyzer | JPEG only | Markers, QT tables, quality, fingerprint | Client | Encoding forensics & camera fingerprinting |
| String Extractor | All formats | Binary string scan, URL/path/software detection | Client | Extract hidden text & embedded metadata |
| Histogram Analyzer | All formats | RGB & luminance histograms, clipping, exposure | Client | Exposure analysis & tonal distribution |
| PCA Scanner | All formats | RGB principal components, variance analysis | Client | Hidden patterns & color decomposition |
| Reverse Image Search | All formats | Google Lens, TinEye, Yandex, Bing Visual Search | Client | Find image origins & copies online |
| QR Code Generator | N/A (generates) | Text, URL, WiFi, vCard, Email QR codes | Client | Create & download custom QR codes |
| Image Resizer | All formats | Pixel, percentage, social media presets | Client | Resize images for any platform |
| Image Compressor | All formats | Quality slider, target filesize, format conversion | Client | Reduce file size with quality control |
| Format Converter | PNG, JPG, WebP, AVIF | 4-way format conversion, transparency, quality control | Client | Convert between PNG, JPG, WebP, AVIF |
| HEIC Converter | HEIC, HEIF | Batch up to 50, JPG/PNG/WebP output, quality control | Client | Open iPhone HEIC on Windows/Android |
| Barcode Generator | Code128, EAN-13, UPC-A, Code39, ITF-14 | 5 formats, adjustable scale/height, text toggle | Client | Generate barcodes for retail, shipping, inventory |
| Social Media Resizer | All image formats | 10 platform sizes, cover/contain, ZIP download | Client | Resize for Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, YouTube |
| Redaction Tool | All image formats | Draw rectangles, custom color, undo, permanent pixel destruction | Client | Censor license plates, addresses, names, documents |
| Lateral Chromatic Aberration | All image formats | Sub-pixel channel displacement, radial fit, corner shift in pixels | Client | Measure the lens channel shift; halves that disagree suggest a splice |
| FFT Spectrum | All image formats | 2D FFT, spectral peaks, HF ratio, colorize | Client | Detect AI/GAN artifacts via frequency analysis |
| Forgery Heatmap | All image formats | Combined ELA + noise + ghost + clone, probability overlay | Client | Multi-method forgery screening in a single pass |
| Background Remover | All image formats | AI segmentation, custom background color, before/after compare | Server | Remove backgrounds with AI, download transparent PNG — photo deleted right after processing |
| Image Upscaler | JPG, PNG, WebP | AI 2× / 4× upscale (Real-ESRGAN), before/after compare | Server | Enlarge images with AI — sharp detail, not blur — photo deleted right after processing |
| Image Colorizer | JPG, PNG, WebP | AI B&W colorization (DeOldify), Artistic/Stable modes, adjustable render quality | Server | Add realistic color to black & white photos with AI — photo deleted right after processing |
| Object Remover | JPG, PNG, WebP | AI object removal (LaMa inpainting), paint-to-remove mask, before/after compare | Server | Remove unwanted objects, people, text, or watermarks from photos — photo deleted right after processing |
| AI Product Background Generator | JPG, PNG, WebP | AI product cutout + repainted background (ad-inpaint), 12 scene presets, before/after compare | Server | Generate studio and lifestyle product-photo backgrounds with AI — photo deleted right after processing |
| Photo Unblur | JPG, PNG, WebP | AI motion-blur removal and denoising (NAFNet), blur/grain mode, before/after compare | Server | Fix a blurry or grainy photo with AI — photo deleted right after processing |
| Low Light Enhancer | JPG, PNG, WebP | AI low-light restoration (InstructIR), brighten / night / denoise modes, before/after compare | Server | Brighten a dark or night photo with AI — photo deleted right after processing |
| AI Alt Text Generator | JPG, PNG, WebP | AI image description (Moondream 2), alt text / long description / caption modes, copy to clipboard | Server | Write alt text and captions from the image — image deleted right after processing |
| Image Cropper | All image formats | Free crop, aspect ratio presets, rotate 90°, flip, grid overlay | Client | Crop photos with presets for social media, print, and documents |
| Image Watermark | All image formats | Text or image overlay, 9-position grid, opacity, rotation, tiling mode | Client | Add watermarks to protect photos before sharing |
| Image Annotator | All image formats | Arrows, rectangles, circles, lines, freehand, highlight, text annotations | Client | Draw on screenshots and photos for markup and feedback |
| Image to PDF | All image formats | Multiple images to single PDF, page size presets, reorder, margins | Client | Combine photos into a PDF for sharing or printing |
| PDF to Image | PDF pages to PNG/JPEG, DPI selector (72/150/300), ZIP download | Client | Extract pages from PDFs as high-quality images | |
| Favicon Generator | All image formats | All favicon sizes (16-512px), ICO, Apple Touch Icon, manifest.json | Client | Generate every favicon your website needs from a single image |
| GIF Maker | All image formats | Multiple images to animated GIF, frame delay, loop count, resize | Client | Create animated GIF animations from image sequences |
| Animated WebP | All image formats | Multiple images to animated WebP, frame delay, loop count, quality | Client | Create animated WebP — smaller and better quality than GIF |
| Image Filters | All image formats | Brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, blur, sharpen, presets, before/after | Client | Apply photo filters and adjustments with before/after preview |
| Dithering | All image formats | Floyd-Steinberg, Atkinson, Jarvis, Bayer 4x4/8x8, plain threshold, 2-8 levels | Client | Reduce an image to few colours with a dither pattern instead of flat bands |
| Halftone | All image formats | Round, square, diamond or line dots, 3-24px cell, 0-90 angle, mono or four-colour | Client | Rebuild an image as a printed dot screen at a chosen cell size and angle |
| ASCII Art Generator | All image formats | Four glyph ramps ordered by measured coverage, 40-240 characters wide, invert, per-cell colour | Client | Turn an image into text characters, copy it or save it as .txt or PNG |
| Pixelate | All image formats | Blocks 2-64px, block average or centre pixel, optional 2-32 levels per channel, measured colour count | Client | Rebuild an image as flat colour blocks — an effect, not a way to hide anything |
| DPI Converter | JPEG, PNG in; JPEG or PNG out | Retag without re-encoding or resample to hold print size, JFIF and EXIF read separately, PNG pHYs written, read-back DPI reported | Client | Change the density a file declares for print — a header value, not added detail |
| Pixel Ruler | All image formats | Click two points for a pixel distance and bearing or three for an angle, measured in the image's native pixels; optional cm/inch from a DPI you enter | Client | Measure a distance or angle on an image without guessing screen scale or a resolution |
| Collage Maker | All image formats | 2-9 photos, 11 grid layouts, gap/border control, background color, drag reorder | Client | Combine multiple photos into a single collage with grid layouts |
| Color Picker | All image formats | Eyedropper, HEX/RGB/HSL/CMYK, zoom loupe, palette history, copy to clipboard | Client | Pick colors from any pixel in an uploaded image |
| Color Blindness Simulator | All image formats | Protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia, achromatopsia, side-by-side, overlay | Client | Simulate color vision deficiencies for accessibility testing |
| Contrast Checker | All image formats | Pick two colors, WCAG AA/AAA ratio, eyedropper, pass/fail, swap, manual hex | Client | Check WCAG contrast ratio between two colors from an image |
| Metadata Editor | JPG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, HEIC | Categorized EXIF view, risk indicators, selective removal by category, clean download | Hybrid | View and selectively remove metadata fields from photos |
| OG Image Previewer | All image formats | Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Discord/Slack preview, aspect ratio, char limits | Client | Preview how your image appears as social media sharing card |
| Base64 Encoder | All image formats | Encode/decode, Data URI, CSS/HTML snippets, MIME detection, copy to clipboard | Client | Convert images to Base64 strings and back |
| Image Splitter | All image formats | 2×2 to 10×10 grid, presets, grid overlay, individual/batch download, JPG/PNG | Client | Split images into grid tiles for carousels and sprites |
| Demosaicing Trace | JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, AVIF | Four-neighbour interpolation residual, 2×2 phase energy spread, full-resolution analysis, grid trace map | Client | Check whether an image still carries the sensor interpolation trace |
| Shadow Edge Orientation | JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, AVIF | Shadow edge detection, per-block orientation arrows, departure heatmap, grid and sensitivity control | Client | Map where shadow boundaries sit across a frame |
| Camera Fingerprint PRNU | JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, AVIF | PRNU noise extraction, sensor fingerprint visualization, two-image NCC comparison, block uniformity analysis | Client | Identify camera sensor via PRNU noise fingerprint |
| Color Space Viewer | JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, AVIF, TIFF | 3D RGB scatter plot, sRGB/Adobe RGB/P3 gamut analysis, clipping detection, saturation stats | Client | Visualize color distribution and gamut coverage |
| SVG to PNG | SVG | 1x–4x scale, custom dimensions, transparent/colored background, batch, SVG code paste | Client | Rasterize SVG vector to PNG at any resolution |
| Image to SVG | JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, TIFF, AVIF | Monochrome trace, multi-color posterize, threshold control, turn policy, SVG download, copy code | Client | Convert bitmap images to scalable vector SVG |
| Rounded Corners | JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, AVIF, TIFF | Per-corner radius, transparent/colored background, border, padding, live preview | Client | Add rounded corners to images with PNG output |
| Image Comparison Slider | JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, AVIF, TIFF | Before/after slider, sync zoom & pan, horizontal/vertical, custom labels, PNG download | Client | Compare two images with interactive slider |
| Image Encryption | JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, AVIF, TIFF, .enc | AES-256-GCM, PBKDF2 key derivation, encrypt & decrypt, original filename recovery | Client | Password-protect images with military-grade encryption |
| Watermark Detector | JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, AVIF, TIFF | Edge density heatmap, semi-transparency detection, tiled pattern analysis, confidence scoring | Client | Detect visible watermarks in stock photos and images |
| Image SEO Checker | JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, AVIF, TIFF | Filename analysis, format check, file size, dimensions, compression efficiency, alt text hints | Client | Analyze image optimization for search engines |
| Dominant Color Analyzer | JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, AVIF, TIFF | K-means++ clustering, 2-12 colors, CSS/Tailwind/HEX/RGB/HSL/JSON export, color naming | Client | Extract dominant color palette with developer export |
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