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> Yes, I just had to do this myself. |
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> There are two packages: jhead and exiftool. The former does jpegs only. |
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> I wound up using exiftool, there's a single command to strip all metadata: |
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> exiftool -all= *.jpg |
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> If I remember right that creates a copy of the file it processes. |
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> You can use exiftool to list tags and also remove individual tags. I |
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> used it to make sure there were no GPS tags in pictures from my phone. |
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I thought I had some problems getting exiftool to work with a PNG file |
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but now I realize I didn't understand how to use it. I think that |
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should be the de facto method for removing EXIF data from many |
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different image formats. |
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- Grant |
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>> Has anyone found a way to completely sanitize images of all |
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>> potentially privacy-invading metadata for posting online? I recently |
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>> discovered that there is actually an EXIF thumbnail image. So if you |
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>> have a photo and you crop it and post it online, the EXIF thumbnail of |
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>> the original uncropped image is still there for all to see. |
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>> - Grant |