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Asked: 2026-05-14T15:30:33+00:00

I want to remove the EXIF information (including thumbnail, metadata, camera info… everything!) from

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I want to remove the EXIF information (including thumbnail, metadata, camera info… everything!) from JPEG files, but I don’t want to recompress it, as recompressing the JPEG will degrade the quality, as well as usually increasing the file size.

I’m looking for a Unix/Linux solution, even better if using the command-line. If possible, using ImageMagick (convert tool). If that’s not possible, a small Python, Perl, PHP (or other common language on Linux) script would be ok.

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  1. Editorial Team

    exiftool does the job for me, it’s written in perl so should work for you on any o/s

    https://exiftool.org/

    usage :

    exiftool -all= image.jpg

    UPDATED – as PeterCo explains below this will remove ALL of the tags. if you just want to remove the EXIF tags then you should use

    exiftool -EXIF= image.jpg
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