On May 8, 2011, at 6:51 PM, Anthony Thyssen wrote: > On Sun, 8 May 2011 18:00:27 EDT > [email protected] wrote: > | > | With the Image::ExifTool Perl module installed, I found the following to > | be equivalent to the command line method. For execution from a script > | without a system call. In case anyone is interested in the future: > | > | use Image::ExifTool; > | $exifTool = new Image::ExifTool; > | $exifTool->SetNewValue('*'); # delete all... > | $exifTool->WriteInfo('original_image.jpg','modified_image.jpg'); > | $errorMessage = $exifTool->GetValue('Error'); > | print $errorMessage; # (if has value an error occurred) > | > | Took some figuring because I was thinking I'd need to load the image before > | changing it. Turns out I needed to assign the setting first using > | SetNewValue then load and save simultaneously using WriteInfo. > | > | ~Rob > > If you just want a command line tool look at jhead > http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/ > > It is a simple package install for most Linux systems, probably Macs too.
Exiftool runs as a command line app too - the command for stripping all metadata from an image file is: exiftool -overwrite_original -all= "/path/to/image.jpg" -Roger _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
