How to remove EXIF data without recompressing the JPEG?

Question

I want to remove the EXIF information (including thumbnail, metadata, camera info... everything!) from JPEG files, but I don\'t want to recompress it, as recompressing the J

Answer 1

exiftool does the job for me, it's written in perl so should work for you on any o/s

https://exiftool.org/

usage :

exiftool -all= image.jpg

Answer 2

With imagemagick:

convert <input file> -strip <output file>

Answer 3

I'd propose jhead:

man jhead
jhead -purejpg image.jpg

Only 123Kb on debian/ubuntu, does not re-compress. Note though that it mutates the image, so copy the original if you need it.

Answer 4

We used this to remove latitude data from TIFF file:

exiv2 mo -M"del Exif.GPSInfo.GPSLatitude" IMG.TIF where you can use exiv2 -pa IMG.TIF to list all metadata.

Answer 5

If you already use jpegoptim you can use it to remove the exif, too.

jpegoptim -s *