====== Remove Image Metadata with exiftool ======

===== Packages =====

On Alpine Linux: [[https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86_64/exiftool|exiftool]]

On Debian: [[https://packages.debian.org/trixie/libimage-exiftool-perl|libimage-exiftool-perl]]

===== How =====

As described [[https://stackoverflow.com/a/66193204|here]]:

<code>
exiftool -all:all= -r image.jpg
</code>

===== Verify =====

<code>
$ exiftool intel-compute-stick-photo.jpg 
ExifTool Version Number         : 13.30
File Name                       : intel-compute-stick-photo.jpg
Directory                       : .
File Size                       : 113 kB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2025:09:07 13:01:50+02:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2025:09:07 13:03:04+02:00
File Inode Change Date/Time     : 2025:09:07 13:02:44+02:00
File Permissions                : -rw-r--r--
File Type                       : JPEG
File Type Extension             : jpg
MIME Type                       : image/jpeg
Image Width                     : 1278
Image Height                    : 710
Encoding Process                : Progressive DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample                 : 8
Color Components                : 3
Y Cb Cr Sub Sampling            : YCbCr4:2:0 (2 2)
Image Size                      : 1278x710
Megapixels                      : 0.907
</code>