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Robin
Robin

Reputation: 123

How to remove EXIF data from image, but keep the orientation?

When I remove the EXIF data from a folder with images with the Windows properties-tool, the orientation (that was already manually changed), is lost. So when I want to place all this pictures on a website, they aren't displayed correctly. The problem is that the size of the folder has increased dramatically at this moment, to change it manually again. So, is there a way to keep the orientation tag when you remove all the EXIF data, in one step?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 12709

Answers (3)

StarGeek
StarGeek

Reputation: 5791

From the command line, you could use Exiftool with this command:

exiftool -all:all= -tagsFromFile @ -exif:Orientation example.jpg

Another thing you could do is rotate the image before uploading. For example, Irfanview has a plugin that will do lossless jpeg rotation for you.

Finally, you can check to see if the website can rotate the image for you. Sites like Facebook and Imgur have options to rotate the image.

Upvotes: 11

Sandra
Sandra

Reputation: 772

There is an option in XnView MP to reset all exif rotation information. It can be found in the menu Tools > Jpeg Lossless transformation > Reset EXIF orientation field

Upvotes: 0

Echsecutor
Echsecutor

Reputation: 874

I use Imagemagick for this. Quick batch script (linux): for f in *.JPG *.jpg; do convert $f -auto-orient $f; done withstanding some pain, you can do similar things with windows Batch or (slightly less painful) Powershell.

Notice that this only takes care of the orientation, you might still want to remove the rest of the EXIF.

Upvotes: 6

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