Python code for erasing EXIF information from image files.
Some images, especially ones scraped from Internet, has corrupt EXIF information.

• pillow

• Single image.

    from erase_exif import erase_exif
    src_path = 'path/to/image.jpg'
    dst_path = 'path/to/destination.jpg'
    erase_exif(src_path, dst_path)

• Multiple images.

  • All images in a list

    Slow but reduces the file size more in total.

  from erase_exif import erase_all_exif
  
  # src_paths sould be a list of str
  # example
  src_paths = ['path/to/image00.jpg', 'path/to/image01.jpg', ...]
  # or
  import glob
  src_paths = glob.glob('path/to/image/folder/*')
  # or
  from pathlib import Path
  src_paths = Path('path/to/image/folder').glob('*')
  src_paths = [str(path) for path in src_paths]
  
  # erase all EXIF
  erase_all_exif(src_paths)
  # or if you want to keep the images
  # If the filename is 'image.jpg', the file with no EXIF info will be 'image_no_exif.jpg'
  erase_all_exif(src_paths, keep_images=True)

  • Erase only corrupt EXIF.

    Fast, but does not reduce file size in total.

  from erase_exif import erase_corrupt_exif
  
  # src_paths should be a list of str
  # examples are in codes above
  src_paths = ['path/to/image00.jpg', 'path/to/image01.jpg', ...]
  
  # erase only corrupt EXIF
  erase_corrupt_exif(src_paths)
  # or if you want to keep the images
  # If the filename is 'image.jpg', the file with no EXIF info will be 'image_no_exif.jpg'
  # This will return a list of filenames with corrupt EXIF info if exists.
  # Use this to eliminate them when using the files.
  past_files = erase_corrupt_exif(src_paths, keep_images=True)

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