Cleaning Exif Data from an image

[Warren Samples]

On Monday, May 02, 2011 04:51:32 PM Andrew Kluthe wrote:
> I do not know much about image manipulation in livecode or in general. But,
> I am looking for a way to scrub exif data off an image easily and without
> loss to the picture. There are libraries in php that let me do this, but I
> would really like a standalone tool that I could automate the process.
> 
> Has anyone done this or know where to get started?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew
> _______________________________________________


Hi Andrew,

Google should turn up plenty of ideas. This seems to be a fairly common interest. Photoshop will save files 
without metadata if you tell it to, if you've got it. There are plenty of seemingly feature-full tools to add, 
adit and remove various types of metadata, for a price. I recall seeing several free and or low cost utilities 
on Versiontracker in the past which were designed specifically to optimize images (typically jpegs and pngs) 
for web use which remove such metadata as a part of that optimization.

Here are a some links you may find interesting:

http://imageoptim.pornel.net

http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/optimize-and-compress-png-files/

http://mansurovs.com/how-to-delete-exif-data

http://download.cnet.com/SmallImage/3000-2193_4-55684.html

http://www.rlvision.com/exif/about.asp

Good luck!