Remove metadata from media
Date created: Jan 21 2025
What is metadata?
In the simple term, metadata is a data that describes other data. For example, we have an image data which contains (an actual image), metadata of the image is what come along with it (GEO Location, ...)
Why we need to remove metadata from media (images)?
For privacy purpose, we need to remove metadata from our media, so no one can track you.
exiftool
exiftool is a tool that lets you create, edit, remove metadata from the images.
To view metadata information of any image
exiftool [FILE_NAME]To remove all metadata information from an image
exiftool -all= [FILE_NAME] # set all metadata to be noneThis document is licensed under the NON-AI-CC0 license.
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