Script to remove all meta data from the photo

Hello,

Removing metadata from photos, particularly camera and lens information, can be crucial for maintaining privacy or anonymity. While Lightroom offers an option to strip metadata during export, retaining layers complicates the process. Fortunately, there's a solution for Photoshop users.

You can achieve this through a script in Photoshop. However, since metadata handling varies based on file formats and Photoshop versions, you might need to tweak or combine existing scripts to fit your needs perfectly.

I recommend exploring Adobe's official scripting resources, such as the Adobe Developer Connection or Adobe Community forums, to find or request a script tailored to your requirements. Alternatively, you might consider hiring a developer proficient in Photoshop scripting to create a custom solution for you.

You can't remove lens and camera data with Adobe's XMP tools unless you wipe out ALL XMP data. That's not helpful. And you are likely a bot since you haven't posted the script.

@Herey35101500twuj 

This is the second time that you have supposedly posted a script, that isn't there.

If you're not a bot, please post the code.

I use EXIFTool. I wrote a script to run EXIFTool in Bridge and Photoshop, so its easy to do. Same issue with lens and camera data.

The EXIFTool command I use is:

-XMP-exifEX:All= -XMP-aux:All= -EXIFIFD:LensInfo= -EXIFIFD:SerialNumber= -EXIFIFD:LensModel= -XMP-xmpMM:All= -EXIF:All= -tagsfromfile @ -EXIF:ImageWidth -EXIF:ImageHeight -EXIF:XResolution -EXIF:YResolution

@Herey35101500twuj 

hello

Where is your updated version?

@Herey35101500twuj 

There's no script 

Update – A Bridge solution here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/bridge-discussions/difficulty-removing-metadata-even-when-doing-a-replace-with-a-different-metadata-template/td-p/13309463

mo54891077 I’m curious, has your issue been resolved, is there any feedback etc? If resolved, can you mark the appropriate answer as correct so that others with the same issue know of the fix?

I would like to offer a different brute force approach to removing non-XMP metadata such as EXIF – which is a script to “rebuild” a copy of the original layered file without the original document-level metadata.

And here is the “final” scripted version which offers more possibilities than the action method:

NOTE: The original script code has been removed for reworking...

#target photoshop
removeXMP();
function removeXMP(){
if(!documents.length) return;
if (ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript == undefined) ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject("lib:AdobeXMPScript");
var xmp = new XMPMeta( activeDocument.xmpMetadata.rawData);
XMPUtils.removeProperties(xmp, "", "", XMPConst.REMOVE_ALL_PROPERTIES);
app.activeDocument.xmpMetadata.rawData = xmp.serialize();
}