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Old October 28th 14, 07:22 PM posted to rec.photo.digital,alt.os.linux,comp.sys.mac.system
A. Beck.
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Default How much EXIF information is tracked by photo sharing sites?

On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 18:59:05 +0000, Joe Makowiec wrote:

If you want to alter or get rid of EXIF data, you can use exiftool:
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/



Exiftool works nicely.
Here are some other ways to remove the EXIF data.


$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick
$ convert -strip pic.jpg pic_sansexif.jpg
$ for i in *.{jpg,JPG}; do echo "Cleaning $i EXIF"; convert -strop $i $i;
done

$ sudo apt-get install exiftool libimage-exiftool-perl
$ exiftool -all= foo.jpg
$ for i in *.{jpg,JPG}; do echo "Cleaning $i EXIF"; exiftool -all= "$i";
done

$ sudo apt-get install jhead
$ jhead -purejpg *.jpg
$ for i in *.{jpg,JPG}; do echo "Cleaning $i EXIF"; jhead -purejpg $i;
done

I don't know how to remove EXIF with exiftran (do you?).
$ sudo apt-get install exiftran

$ sudo apt-get install exiv2
$ exiv2 -rm pic.jpg pic.jpg ???
(I'm not sure the sytax to use the "rm" option to remove EXIF data)