Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal
Simon Willison released Photo Scrubber, a local browser tool that blurs faces and strips photo metadata.
Simon Willison released Photo Scrubber, an experimental in-browser tool that detects and blurs faces before photographs of strangers are shared. It uses Google MediaPipe compiled to WebAssembly and the BlazeFace detection model, and it also removes photo metadata. He said GPT-6 Astra helped build the tool, and processing stays local in the browser.
- Local browser tool blurs detected faces and removes metadata.
- Uses MediaPipe compiled to WebAssembly and the BlazeFace model.
- GPT-6 Astra helped build it for privacy-conscious photo sharing.
Tool: Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal I took a photograph of some protesters, then thought about how I don't like sharing photographs of strangers with identifiable faces. I had GPT-6 Astra build this experimental tool that would identify faces and automatically blur them out. It uses Google's MediaPipe C++ library, compiled to WebAssembly via @mediapipe/tasks-vision , plus the BlazeFace face detection model. Tags: photography , tools
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