Save .jpg without metadata.

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January 10, 2019
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Is there a way to save the opened file as .jpg without all the metadata (camera info, date taken, etc.)? I currently use the code below, but there seems to be no option to suppress the unnecessary data from the output file.

var jpgOpts = new JPEGSaveOptions();    
jpgOpts.quality = 9;
jpgOpts.embedColorProfile = false;
jpgOpts.matte = MatteType.NONE;
jpgOpts.formatOptions = FormatOptions.STANDARDBASELINE;

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Anika287307181hjk

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images_adobe_express.jpg

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maxwyss

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Finally, for existing images, you might use exiftool to scrub all metadata.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

There is a script in the following topic that removes the photoshop:DocumentAncestors metadata, perhaps this could be modified for other metadata (be careful not to overwrite the original image though):

https://forums.adobe.com/message/8511978#8511978

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maxwyss took the words right out of my mouth. Depending on the data that you wish to remove the three common sets of metadata tags are below (I usually use the second/middle command):

exiftool -all= -r 'path/to/file or top level folder'

exiftool -all= -CommonIFD0= -r 'path/to/file or top level folder'

exiftool -all= -CommonIFD0= -Adobe:All= -r 'path/to/file or top level folder'

(Windows users would use straight double quotes rather than single. Add the -overwrite_original argument to skip the auto generation of backup files)

The ExifTool commands can be easily incorporated into a drag-n-drop shortcut on Windows OS or used with Apple Automator on the Mac to create a drag-n-drop app, contextual right click service or folder action etc:

Prepression: Apple Automator