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| author | Christian Cleberg <[email protected]> | 2025-11-11 22:49:13 -0600 |
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| committer | Christian Cleberg <[email protected]> | 2025-11-11 22:49:13 -0600 |
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diff --git a/content/blog/2022-02-17-exiftool.org b/content/blog/2022-02-17-exiftool.org index 8383ddd..45308ef 100644 --- a/content/blog/2022-02-17-exiftool.org +++ b/content/blog/2022-02-17-exiftool.org @@ -5,14 +5,14 @@ ** Why Strip Metadata? -Okay, so you want to strip metadata from your photos. Perhaps you take -pictures of very rare birds, and the location metadata is a gold mine -for poachers, or perhaps you're just privacy-oriented like me and prefer -to strip metadata from publicly-available images. +Okay, so you want to strip metadata from your photos. Perhaps you take pictures +of very rare birds, and the location metadata is a gold mine for poachers, or +perhaps you're just privacy-oriented like me and prefer to strip metadata from +publicly-available images. -There are various components of image metadata that you may want to -delete before releasing a photo to the public. Here's an incomplete list -of things I could easily see just by inspecting a photo on my laptop: +There are various components of image metadata that you may want to delete +before releasing a photo to the public. Here's an incomplete list of things I +could easily see just by inspecting a photo on my laptop: - Location (Latitude & Longitude) - Dimensions @@ -25,15 +25,14 @@ of things I could easily see just by inspecting a photo on my laptop: - Metering Mode - F Number -Regardless of your reasoning, I'm going to explain how I used the -=exiftool= package in Linux to automatically strip metadata from all -images in a directory (+ subdirectories). +Regardless of your reasoning, I'm going to explain how I used the =exiftool= +package in Linux to automatically strip metadata from all images in a directory +(+ subdirectories). ** Installing =exiftool= -First things first: we need to install the tool. I'm running Debian 11 -on my server (Ubuntu will work the same), so the command is as simple -as: +First things first: we need to install the tool. I'm running Debian 11 on my +server (Ubuntu will work the same), so the command is as simple as: #+begin_src sh sudo apt install exiftool @@ -44,16 +43,15 @@ distributions, but I really only care to test out this one package. ** Recursively Strip Data -I actually use this tool extensively to strip any photos uploaded to the -website that serves all the images for my blog (=img.cleberg.net=). +I actually use this tool extensively to strip any photos uploaded to the website +that serves all the images for my blog (=img.cleberg.net=). -The following command is incredibly useful and can be modified to -include any image extensions that =exiftool= supports: +The following command is incredibly useful and can be modified to include any +image extensions that =exiftool= supports: #+begin_src sh exiftool -r -all= -ext jpg -ext png /path/to/directory/ #+end_src -The output of the command will let you know how many directories were -scanned, how many images were updated, and how many images were -unchanged. +The output of the command will let you know how many directories were scanned, +how many images were updated, and how many images were unchanged. |
