JPEG MetaData editing tools

[SeeMoreDigital]

Hi guys,

Is anybody here aware of a "free" tool that can delete all erroneous MetaData from JPEG images?

For example: -

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/9375/comptestmz9.png



Cheers

[Kurtnoise]

Exifer (http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/software/exifer/) or maybe irfanview with the appropriate plugin...;)

[SeeMoreDigital]

Exifer (http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/software/exifer/) or maybe irfanview with the appropriate plugin...;)I had a look at Exifer and I'm buggered if I can workout how it works :eek:

[foxyshadis]

I use jpegtran. Made a shell action in regedit that calls a script that does something kind of like this:

jpegtran -o -progressive "%1" "%1.new.jpg"

Gets rid of thumbnails, IPTC, and ICM profiles, and all that other junk I don't care about too. http://foxyshadis.slightlydark.com/random/ashade.gif

[SeeMoreDigital]

Hi Foxyshadis.... Does it have a GUI?

[NormanBates]

I would suggest JPG Cleaner: http://www.rainbow-software.org/

[SeeMoreDigital]

I would suggest JPG Cleaner: http://www.rainbow-software.org/
Thanks Norm,

Just tried it. It stripped away all the unnecessary metadata, however it also changed some necessary metadata too: -

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/5950/snap1fg6.png


Bummer

[SeeMoreDigital]

Does anybody have any other suggestions. Or fancy creating a tool that will do the job?


Cheers

[setarip_old]

@SeeMoreDigital

Hi!

I believe this can be readily accomplished by simply loading the original JPEG into a "paint" program, such as PaintShop Pro, and resaving it...

[SeeMoreDigital]

Hi!

I believe this can be readily accomplished by simply loading the original JPEG into a "paint" program, such as PaintShop Pro, and resaving it... Yes I'm able to do it with HyperSnap.

However, I'm after a way of correcting the metadata of a whole load of images (in a folder) at the same time.

From what I understand there are tools that can batch convert the meta/user-data of .MP3 files...

[SeeMoreDigital]

Cool....

I've just found a very simple "free-ware" little application going by the name of JPEG & PNG Stripper (http://www.steelbytes.com/?mid=30)...

What do you guys think?

[Hard Core Rikki]

I prefer to use Irfanview, with the shift+J command (can remove all/select metadata, plus optimize JPG filesize without quality degradation). Handy for unoptimized JPG exports from photoshop and the likes ;)

About that stripper, looks nice, actually, but it seems it doesnt optimize JPG filesize, so Irfan wins here for me, as I'm more concerned about optimizing filesizes while stripping extra non-image data (possible privacy concern too)

[reepa]

I just did this using XnView (Windows freeware). Open its Browser (the one with a tree view pane, a thumbnail pane and a preview pane), select all JPG images in the thumbnail pane (you sort by type to make it easy) and then Edit -> Metadata -> Clean. If your images are all in a few directories, this is very quick. It's inconvenient if you have few images per directory and lots of directories though.

PS. do you mean "extraneous" instead of "erroneous"? That data seems quite valid to me.

[setarip_old]

However, I'm after a way of correcting the metadata of a whole load of images (in a folder) at the same time.PaintShopPro has a batch processing facility...

[SeeMoreDigital]

PaintShopPro has a batch processing facility... Sadly, it's not a "free" application though....

[Inventive Software]

I'm sure I could sort that out for you SMD. ;)