shyamo / image-metadata-cleaner

Simple tool to delete multiple EXIF metadata from images

Image Metadata Cleaner

Images contain a lot of metadata which you may not be aware of. This tool strips out all that metadata linked to the image and creates a new image in the same folder. Please see https://www.exiftool.org/TagNames/EXIF.html for list of potential metadata that could be in your image.

Dependancies:

 from exif import Image
 from PIL import Image
 from PIL.ExifTags import TAGS

Install dependancies above via PIP e.g.

pip install exif

Notes: If you're having an issue where PIL package is not recognized or have multiple version of python on your machine, add an alias to your bash or .zshrc file referencing the python3 like below:

alias python='/usr/local/bin/python3'

and set your default to python 3.10.

How to run the script

python index.py <PATH_TO_FOLDER>

1. It will find the image files in the folder and attempt to remove EXIF data.
2. It will list any EXIF metadata onto the console which includes, filename, attribute and value.
3. A new image file is created with a prefix f_ in the same folder.

Disclaimer The purpose of this tool is to remove all EXIF metadata from your images. I am not responsible if your original images change in anyway or become corrupt or even if metadata is not removed from the image.